Junior Varsity Angel Wrestling Team

by Eve Tushnet

The film is in large part about the failures and sins of American church culture—but you can also tell that Cone is honoring the place and community that shaped him. Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2016 0

How to Mark the Death of a Devil?

by K. E. Colombini

Perhaps now, with the death of a sinner, the country may turn from his evil ways—and find life instead. Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2016 0

The Travails of Lieutenant Marty

by Carl R. Trueman

A U.S. military handbook shows that the transgender issue is not about bathrooms. It is about the triumph of Psychological Man and the comprehensive reconstruction of the world on that basis. Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2016 0

Solidarity and Dynamism

by Filip Mazurczak

Solidarity showed the world the link between the Polish nation and Catholicism. However, few outside Poland know the history of this bond. Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2016 0

Every Campus Has a Safe Space Already

by Mark Bauerlein

It’s called the chapel. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2016 0

Poetry and Popery

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 17. Also featuring: Thanksgiving wishes from the First Things staff. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2016 0

What We've Been Reading—11.18.16

by Editors

On my honeymoon in Venice and Rome, I read Crosstalk, the latest novel from scintillating sci-fi writer Connie Willis. Like other Willis novels, this book uses a science fiction premise to season a screwball comedy. Here our heroine juggles romantic misadventures and the sudden, unwanted gift of telepathy.
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18 Nov 2016 0

Is the Religious Right Dead or Alive?

by Dale M. Coulter

Before November 8, numerous voices suggested that the Religious Right was in its death throes and that no intervention could resuscitate it. Then Donald Trump got elected. Continue Reading »

18 Nov 2016 0

Catholic Scholars Commend the Witness of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC)

by Robert P. George

The historic Black church and the Catholic Church in America, though allies in many struggles, have been too much like strangers to each other for too long. It should not have taken the unprecedented moral challenges we now face, or the abject failures of our political elites, to bring us closer together. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2016 0

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

by Carl R. Trueman

Broken election promises, a theodicy question, and a reflection on Christian ministry under Trump. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2016 0