Naturally I appreciate the kind and intelligent attention to my ideas from Peter Lawler, Richard Reinsch , and Carl Scott. (I would not be dismayed in the unlikely event that the term “Ralphism” caught on, though I might have suggested a term more along the lines of “the . . . . Continue Reading »
The chief prosecutor in Peter Leithart’s recently concluded heresy trial stunned many by converting to Roman Catholicism shortly after bringing his prosecution. Now some are citing his conversion as reason to declare a mistrial : Three Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in America . . . . Continue Reading »
From R.R. Reno’s ” Public Square ” in the May issue of First Things . Support First Things by subscribing here . First Things has been updated for the iPad. It has the same elegant style as the print magazine, but we’ve changed the formatting in significant ways to make . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Flanders, writing about the twentieth-century movement toward unity between the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches (who split over Christological disagreements after the Council of Chalcedon in 451), says that Protestant models of ecumenism paved the way: It was within the WCC that two . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart explores the problem with family values : Traditionally, marriage and family in turn opened out to the community. As Wendell Berry says, “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the . . . . Continue Reading »
Like many, I have been following the debate between R. R. Reno and Robert Miller about conservatism and the alleged triumph of capitalism. As I follow their debate, in the back of my mind is a phrase I heard soon after Pope Francis was elected: the Pope gets his “oxygen” from the slums : . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Prodromou, a former Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, has some harsh words for the commission’s annual report , issued last month. Prodromou sharply criticizes USCIRF and the entire U.S. foreign policy team for . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Wonder of Earnest, Ethereal Personalism Owen White, The Ochlophobist The Alphabet of Nature and Angels Stefany Anne Golberg, The Smart Set Mark Sanford’s God Ross Douthat, Evaluations The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution Troy Patterson, Slate “Son of God” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obama administration sent Susan Rice out to lie when she said that the Benghazi attack was a “spontaneous” (with RPGs!) response to a YouTube clip. I just don’t think that foreign Muslims were the intended audience for the lie. The Obama administration could have groveled and . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
