Welcome to our new blog, not to be confused with our ” On the Square ” daily article, which can still be found on the home page.
This blog will be a group endeavor, with First Things staffers, writers, and friends commenting and contributing on a regular basis, supplying multiple daily posts on topics ranging from religion in the public square to the arts, science, philosophy, culture, politics, various doings in the blogosphere, and, most important, why Orson Welles couldn’t get a decent movie made in the United States after 1960.
So log on to firstthings.com/blog early and often.
The Church in the Age of Therapy
In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to…
Canada’s Deadliest Blind Spot
On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother…
The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen
Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…