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This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why First Things matters. To make your year-end campaign gift now, visit firstthings.com/donate. Two...

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by peter brown princeton, 736 pages, $45 Peter Brown’s latest book is a quest narrative. It’s a genre-defying personal account of...

Another English translation of the Bible recently appeared: the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition (NRSVue). While presented as an “updated edition” rather than a new translation, NRSVue incorporates...

I’m the pastor of small church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Last Sunday, with great reluctance, we had online services for the first time. It was not an easy decision....

The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions of free assembly and travel raise the question: How do Christians deal with such crises? In 1527, Dr. Martin Luther addressed similar...

Back in 1998, at a theological conference, I heard a pastor (we’ll call himn Pastor V.) of my denomination (the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod) recountn what had driven him out...