Empathy is Not Charity

by Patricia Snow

Martin Scorsese’s recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based, turns on an act of emotional blackmail. Inoue, a seventeenth-century Japanese magistrate intent on eradicating Christianity from his country, pressures a Jesuit priest named Rodrigues to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Is God Still Dead?

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 5. Also featuring: Book talk with Rusty Reno and “Stump the Editors.” Continue Reading »

12 Aug 2016