The Christian Century asked eight theologians to name the five Essential theology books of the past 25 years . Stanley Hauerwas will be the theologian most familiar to First Things readers, and he chose: George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age . . . . Continue Reading »
Now up on “On the Square”: A tribute to Michael Novak , who is among many other things our long-time board member and writer. Writing on what he calls “the total Novak phenomenon,” Christopher DeMuth praises Novak’s industrious, audacity, courage, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes the New York Times is like breakfast cereal: You’re pouring yourself some boring, high-fiber, colon-cleansing all-bran and then . . . a plastic secret decoder ring plops into your bowl. You have no idea how it sneaked out of the box of Super Sugar Surge and got mixed in with your . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Ballor points out a trend that I too have noticed over the past few years: Some years ago Robert Benne wrote an essay in First Things called “The Neo-Augustinian Temptation,” which he describes as a movement “committed to the construction of an independent and distinct . . . . Continue Reading »
“It is as a man of faith that the Church beatified John Henry Newman,” not (directly anyway) because of he was a great thinker, writer, and preacher, writes George Weigel in today’s “On the Square,” Newman’s Faith . And suggests why with a moving and . . . . Continue Reading »
This clip is from February but I figured if I missed it then you probably did to. At the influential TED conference, Bill Gates explains how we can impede global warming—reduce the number of people through “new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services.” Here is the exact . . . . Continue Reading »
I see a lot of bad reportage in this work. Some of it is due to ignorance. Some of it is bias. Some of it is laziness. Some of it is bad reporting. And some of it is caused by a sector that is shrinking with fewer bodies to cover an, if anything, expanding story bank.I . . . . Continue Reading »
So the subscription request from Ms. Magazine reads: “Content and design that will not be uncompromised by the demands of advertising.” A weak attempt at cutesy honesty, or just bad copyediting? . . . . Continue Reading »
Just clicked through to read about something mentioned earlier : A 55-square-foot apartment is on sale in Rome for just over $69,000. 55 square feet. That’s 5’ by 11’. I mean, sure, it’s on the Piazza di Sant’ Ignazio , but $69,000? I’d trust the story a little . . . . Continue Reading »
Every time I think I might be wrong about the essential meaningless of most music criticism, I read stuff like this—a catalog by Philip Kennicott of some of the idiocies he found in Norman Lebrecht’s new book Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World : Lebrecht is . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
