John Starke picks the mind of Fred Sanders , associate professor at Biola University, at The Gospel Coalition . Perhaps unsurprisingly, the exchange largely revolves around the subject of why Sanders is not a Calvinist, given his admission that: . . . it took me some time to come around to see . . . . Continue Reading »
Maggie Gallagher’s blog is called Culture War Victory Fund . But what would it mean to “win” the culture war? Her essay on David Blankenhorn shows how urgent it is for us to reexamine this question. I owe a lot to Maggie Gallagher. I’ve only met her once, and that was brief. . . . . Continue Reading »
Some decades ago Peter Berger became convinced that secularization theory isn’t true. Science, technology, and modernity do not necessarily lead to the decline of religion. Secularization is the exception—a parochial western and central European phenomenon that is also characteristic of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Vatican has released a document providing guidelines and criteria for promoting and considering vocations to the priesthood. Carol Glatz , writing for CNS, says: the Congregation for Catholic Education sought to address a widespread demand for pastoral guidelines for fostering vocations . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been fighting euthanasia since 1993. During that time, I have been startled at what resonates emotionally with people about doctor-prescribed/administered death, and those matters which are generally shrugged off as of little concern. If a sick person wants to die, . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on how the sons of Caesar are still pulling Peter down : The sons of Caesar appear today in the op-ed pages of leading newspapers, where the better classes of people—the self-proclaimed smarties who amuse themselves and their circles by calling themselves “collapsed” . . . . Continue Reading »
Excommunication is the most severe penalty the Catholic Church can impose upon its members, but it is sometimes necessary as a matter of simple justice. Writing in the National Catholic Register , Father Brian Mullady makes the point well . Acknowledging that many regard excommunication . . . . Continue Reading »
Of Anti-Semitism and The Prague Cemetery Omri Ceren, Commentary Revolutionary Sermons That Rang with ‘Notes of Freedom’ Ryan Messmore, The Foundry Leah Libresco Interviewed on CNN Brandon Vogt / CNN “The Strongest Political Instrument of Our Time” Joe . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Readers, First Things is a non-profit. For more than twenty years readers have provided donations that have sustained the journal. Now the electronic age presents new challenges. I’ve written to our subscribers, who have responded with generosity. Now I’m writing to you directly on . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Randy Boyagoda, FIRST THINGS writer, novelist, and biographer of Richard John Neuhaus, has written a short personal essay on his reading of the English children’s writer Enid Blyton, Five in the Colonies: Enid Blyton’s Sri Lankan Adventures , published in the Paris Review . . . . . Continue Reading »
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