Mercersburg theology has a small but devoted following among evangelically-oriented Calvinists. It was a nineteenth-century movement centered in the German Reformed seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Leading scholars John Williamson Nevins and Philip Schaff criticized the individualism and . . . . Continue Reading »
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David Mills, Aleteia
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David Gibson, Religion News Service
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Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist., Sancrucensis
Europe's Cheesy Musical Proxy War
Ivan Plis, National Interest
Secret History of Bioluminescence
Ferris Jabr, Hakai
Your Brain Does Not Process Information and it is not a Computer
Robert Epstein, Aeon
This is How Fascism Comes to America
Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Lewis on Tolkien: “Only Needs A Smack or So”
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
The Meaning of Food
Ian Sansom, Times Literary Supplement
Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party?
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia
The Sisters Who Treat the Untreatable
Gillian Laub and Brooke Jarvis, New York Times
Romeo and Juliet gets Local Twist in Gaza Performance
Fares Akram, Times of Israel
The Brotherhood of Moses the Black
Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast
Video: Why Poetry Matters
Dana Gioia, C-Span
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a Black Hole, Sucking the Fun out of the Universe
Sam Kriss, Wired
A Young Priest Sets the Record Straight for the Catholic Left
Fr. Kyle Doustou, Liturgy Guy
Death by GPS
Greg Milner, Ars Technica
The Little Sisters of the Poor Just Beat the Obama Administration at the Supreme Court
David French, National Review
A few quick observations on the Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraception mandate case. Zubik presents the question of whether the administration's accommodation for religious nonprofits—such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who argue that despite the . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading the list of demands that black students at Oberlin College issued to the Oberlin leadership awhile back, I needed a quick antidote, which I found in the Port Huron Statement of 1962. Continue Reading »
Captain America: Civil War Puts Humanity Before Spectacle
Alexi Sargeant, Acculturated
What Is the Benedict Option, and Why Might It Be Coming to Your Neighborhood?
John Burger, Aleteia
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
Nicholas Kristoff, New York Times
The Seven Deadly Social Networks
Robinson Meyer, Atlantic
Pope to Set Up Commission to Study Possibility of Women Deacons
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
What the Book Really Means
Melanie Bettinelli, Wine Dark Sea
Would the World be a Better Place Without People like my Daughter?
Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail
Shakespeare as All-Too-Modern Nightmare
Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal
Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions
Brendan P. Foht, New Atlantis
Our June/July 2016 issue of First Things is hot off the press and available on our website. As a special piece of bonus content, I am here to share with you, loyal readers, some of our also-ran titles: headings for pieces that were suggested at our titles meeting but nixed for being too punny, too . . . . Continue Reading »
The case of a Wyoming judge is a harbinger of what is to come for all of us.
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Responding to two common criticisms of my view of the rise of the anti-culture. Continue Reading »
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