Mostly, I grew up a Jew among other Jews. So how had Jesus entered my imagination? How had he come to occupy its core? It took an effort of memory, but I reached back to the first time I had truly noticed him. It had happened on a Christmas Eve. Continue Reading »
For me, First Things was more than a political journal. It was a field guide to the ideological chaos that I encountered every day on campus. Continue Reading »
Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation—an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents. Continue Reading »
Christmas reminds us what Christians have to say to the world's pervasive loneliness. We say “God is with us.” Continue Reading »
Some Canadian bishops are failing the same test that caused Sebastian Rodrigues to stumble in Silence. Continue Reading »
If we tried translating Verlaine’s spiritual writing into the language of accompaniment and integration, we would be exchanging great religious art for soulless bureaucratic jargon. Continue Reading »
Pascal understood the pathology of our age three hundred years ago. And the answer then, as now, is the Christian one. Continue Reading »
A seventh-grader recently asked me how to respond to his peer’s obstinate claim that he and the rest of his Catholic co-religionists are just as bad as ISIS. Continue Reading »
Much has changed in Egypt since 2011. Yet with all of these developments, one thing has not changed: Attacks against Christians have continued. Continue Reading »
The urgency of supporting the Four Cardinals arises from the objectively verifiable fact that the Church is in a state of complete confusion over some very fundamental issues. Continue Reading »
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