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Suburban Coercion

The First Things Podcast, Episode 26. Featuring: FX’s The Americans, and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

The Evolving American Constitution: Change Without Amendment

by David T. Koyzis

There is a case to be made that the British and American constitutions are not that different after all. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2017 0

Charles Taylor and the Communion of the Saints

by Dale M. Coulter

Taylor’s prescription for our secular age remains connected to his reading of Christian tradition, in particular his understanding of the communion of the saints. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2017 0

The Bible and Colonial America

by Glenn Moots

Mark Noll’s reliance on a reductive caricature of Protestant political theology causes him to give a false impression of how most colonial American Protestants deployed sacred and secular sources in their political thought. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2017 0

Send Your Children to Middlebury College

by Robert P. George

Our motto is “a little learning (or even thinking) is a dangerous thing.” Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2017 0

Christ in the Desert

by J. D. Flynn

On Saturday, I watched good friends carry a miniature white casket up the aisle of our parish church, to be laid before the altar for a funeral Mass. My friends have entered the season of Lent in a profound way. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2017 0

Rabbi Objects to Pope Francis’s Anti-Jewish Rhetoric

by Matthew Schmitz

Pope Francis frequently insults his Catholic critics by using anti-Jewish rhetoric. As it turns out, not all Jews are pleased with this. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2017 0