Readers will want to know about The City , a (fairly) new and impressive journal published by Houston Baptist University. For one thing, its writers include many names that have appeared in First Things , like our web editor Joe Carter, Matthew Lee Anderson, and Ryan T. Anderson (all contributing editors), Micah Mattix (their review editor), Francis Beckwith, and Frederica Matthewes-Green. Our editor Joseph Bottum is a member of their advisory editors.
Issues can be found online here .
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…
The Possibility of Possibility
"Might could” is a Southern expression meaning “maybe I could” or “I might be able to,” conveying…
The False Promise of No Contact
Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that…