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The Peace Treaty
I met a woman my age at the local rock climbing gym. Articulate, well-educated, and professionally successful,…
Saint Valentine, Martyr
Recently I read a skeptic’s claim that medieval monks invented St. Valentine’s Day. This account is an…
Life on the Line in Ireland
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Associate editor Julia Yost talks with Senator Rónán Mullen…
Time Out of Joint
Everyone who’s read Genesis 1 knows that Hebrews reckoned time from night till day. “Evening and morning,…
Hero in Blue
Few New Yorkers ever have been so admired as police officer Steven McDonald—and not only because he…
Science of Division
Plato said that purification is a science of division. So is creation. In Genesis, God forms the…
Horticultural Anthropology
David Smith and Susan Felch devote several pages of their Teaching and Christian Imagination (129–134) to a…
Near Miss at Marburg
In a brief 1949 article in the Lutheran Quarterly, Roland Bainton observes that, far from being stubborn…
When Science Went Modern
Writing in the Hedgehog Review (Fall 2016), Lorraine Daston identifies 1890-1914 as the “moment when science went…
McLaboratory
McDonald’s looks like a fast food restaurant, but it’s a site of “embedded science,” writes Steven Shapin:…
God’s Wounds
Jean-Louis Chretien begins his Hand to Hand with a series of meditations on the story of Jacob…
Silence of Painting
In Hand to Hand, Jean-Louis Chretien meditates on silence in painting. He doesn’t simply mean that painting…
Fair Nature’s Second Chance
“Giving oneself up to sleep can constitute the worst of abandonments,” writes Jean-Louis Chretien (Hand to Hand),…
The New (Secular) Pragmatism
Paul Collier devotes a long, provocative, stimulating TLS review to a sketch of a “new pragmatism.” The…
Authoritarian Gardeners
David I. Smith and Susan M. Felch (Teaching and Christian Imagination) want to rehabilitate the symbolism of…
