April 2025
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Letters
Thank you for Philip Pilkington’s well-deserved response (“Farewell to Liberal-Imperial Diplomacy,” February 2025) to an American embarrassment:…
The Pillar and Foundation of Truth: A Statement by Evangelicals and Catholics Together
As the People of God, the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ’s very body…
Who Owns the Embryos?
For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child…
AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing
Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term covering many beliefs about the powers possessed by computers, both now…
Chuck Colson’s Last Word
Several months ago, I came into possession of an extraordinary book—a hardcover copy of To Change the…
In Search of Turkish Delight
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…
The Return of Strong Religion
The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are…
Elon’s Family Values
A battle has broken out on the American right. Two visions of what it means to have children…
Goldilocks Protestantism
Imagine a world without Protestantism. I don’t mean a world without Christians who are neither Catholic nor…
Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…
Divine Elitism
I have often seethed at the pigheadedness of bureaucrats. Their roles in the ecclesial and academic worlds…
Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…
Confession Eclipsed
It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most…
No Country for Christendom
The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire.…
Omnis in Scripturas
Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…
Honeymoon Road Signs on I-10 East in Arizona
Zero visibility possible,you read aloud. The logic’s water-tight:there’s always a good chance for lack of sight. We…
The End of Politics
The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…
