Graduating college seniors and recent graduates are invited to apply for the First Things junior fellows program. The junior fellows work closely with the editors to produce the magazine and its website. The one-year, full-time fellowship (which can be extended to a second year) includes housing and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wound of Beauty
Gregory Wolfe, Image
Modernity, Religion, and Morality
George Weigel, Yoram Hazony, Tikvah
Elijah and the Widow: An Advent Meditation
Richard Beck, Experimental Theology
San Francisco Values
Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books
Muslim Parents on How They Talk to Their Children About Hatred and Extremism
Hanna Ingber, New York Times
Towards Plural Marriage: Understanding and Countering the Liberal Wringer
Scott Yenor, Public Discourse
Economic Participation
Richard Aleman, Distributist Review
Krampus Resurgent
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
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I am seeking contributions for an anthology by Catholics who have continued to practice their faith despite mistreatment by their churches or by Catholic communities or institutions. We hear a lot about what it feels like to leave a church after mistreatment, and we hear some things about what . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat’s Erasmus lecture, “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” and Carl Trueman’s column, “Is There A Crisis in Conservative Protestantism?” put me in mind to think about the American Church. That said, I’m more of a “not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper” kind of guy, not that . . . . Continue Reading »
In which I both challenge the trans community to face up to the implications of their own logic and, in honor of the season of goodwill, selflessly offer the New Left a helping hand by coining a term for a novel and pernicious form of oppression.
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C. S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent
Harry Lee Poe, Christianity Today
Preserving the City of Tomorrow
Steven W. Semes, New Criterion
Movable Feasts:
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Staff, Economist
Father Mourad: Defeating ISIS Within a Cell of Prayer
Arthur Herlin, Aleteia
Grace Notes
Rowan Williams, Literary Review
Medication Nation
Philip Alcabes, American Scholar
Charlotte Brontë’s Most Inexplicable Denominational Burns
Mallory Ortberg, Toast
The Alarming Summons of Advent
Laura Trimble, Humane Pursuits
Last year I posted in this space a reading plan of my own devising for working through all of Shakespeare's works. I made some work for myself when I created this plan, because I settled on reading plays Monday through Friday, and sonnets and other poems on weekends. Thus it needs annual . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is an item about a new research project that will interest many First Things readers. As reported in this story, the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law has received a major grant from the Bradley Foundation to launch the Tradition Project, a new, . . . . Continue Reading »
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