First Things is pleased to announce our next event : renowned poet Christian Wiman will be giving a reading here at our editorial offices in Manhattan on October 29, at 6 p.m. Wiman is editor of Poetry magazine. His most recent collection, Every Riven Thing , is just out from Farrar Straus Giroux . . . . Continue Reading »
In the absence of a general cross-referencing apparatus to aid readers in negotiating the multiple First Things blogs, I thought I would draw the attention of Evangel readers to R. R. Reno’s Love Rather Than Theory, published yesterday at On the Square. It’s an important piece well worth . . . . Continue Reading »
A special double-feature today in “On the Square.” First, David Hart presents an even more provocative argument than usual in The Greatest Nation on Earth . It is not America for, he writes, “I was not really raised with any firm sense of being an American; it was not part . . . . Continue Reading »
Scotland Yard did its job in arresting five “terrorists.” The press has not been so alert. First reports spoke of “London street sweepers” as though they might have been from a chorus of My Fair Lady or Mary Poppins . Then they had to allow that they are Algerians. Very . . . . Continue Reading »
The news that five suspected terrorists have just been arrested over an alleged plot to kill the Pope during his visit to Britain reminds us once again that prayers are called for on every step of his journey. Scotland Yard now believes they have the situation under control, and the pope, having . . . . Continue Reading »
Early this morning, London’s Metropolitan Police arrested five men in connection with a possible terror plot aimed at Pope Benedict XVI. The arrests were made at 0545 BST at addresses in London after counter-terrorism officers received intelligence of a potential threat. The five men have been . . . . Continue Reading »
Around 10:30 a.m. this morning, you can watch FT editor Joseph Bottum discuss the papal visit to the UK on Fox News’ show, God Talk. Watch the streaming video here . . . . . Continue Reading »
What does Obamacare have to do with the depressed real estate market? Alas, a lot. Buried amidst other landmines in the nearly 3000 pages of text of Obamacare—to be followed by at least 100,000 pages of regulations—is a tax on personal real estate sales profits—this, in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Los Angeles Times , not a paper outwardly friendly to the Church, has commented on the pope’s tour through Scotland: “More than 100,000 well-wishers greeted Benedict as he travelled the streets of Edinburgh in his specially designed Popemobile, with his shoulders wrapped . . . . Continue Reading »
There are some who now seek to exclude religious belief from public discourse, to privatize it or even to paint it as a threat to equality and liberty. Yet religion is in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect, leading us to look upon every person as a brother or sister. — Pope . . . . Continue Reading »
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