Abortion & IVF

I cannot conceive an argument with John’s Jesus,” Jacob Neusner once wrote, “because eternal Israel in John…

In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…

Back in December, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Stanislaw Wielgus to be the metropolitan-archbishop of Warsaw. News…

Two recent trips to two very different art exhibits provoked some gloomy thoughts about our times. Earlier…

It is always encouraging to see episcopal leadership on the important questions of our day. Particularly heartening…

“So,” asked Father Neuhaus, “why don’t they take out an ad in First Things ?” I explained…

As with the pun, appreciation of the limerick is a cultivated taste. I’m still working on it,…

According to a report by Reuters, religious leaders on the left are ratcheting up their opposition to…

Margaret Simon, my sixth grade English teacher and grammar martinet, would have been shocked by this book’s…

The arcane academic title of this book” Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity ”offers no…

Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…

Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectivesedited by robert t. pennockmit press, 805…

Events of recent months”in particular, the execution of Timothy McVeigh and, just prior to it, public airing…

Not long ago, my pastor asked if I’d be willing to serve as a delegate for our…

There is a danger in reviewing books written by theologians one knows, respects, and argues with on…