Foreign Affairs
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Evangelical Challenges for Vatican Diplomacy
The bilateral diplomacy of the Holy See is unique in world affairs, in that it has little…
Europe and Nothingness
In the wake of the horrific jihadist attack on the Paris-based journal Charlie Hebdo, the trope “satirical magazine”…
An Ever Evolving Queen
I don’t go all gooey over royalty, especially British royalty, but that didn’t stop my daughter, when…
Europe’s Euthanasia Craze
The case of Frank Van Den Bleeken—the Belgian murderer and rapist who requested to be euthanized rather…
Africa’s Catholic Moment
According to an old Vatican aphorism, “We think in centuries here.” Viewed through that long-distance lens, the…
What Christianity Contributes to China’s Economic Rise
What has fueled China’s remarkable economic growth that has lifted more than 500 million people out of…
Spurgeon at Year’s End
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a cigar-smoking Baptist pastor in Victorian London whose influence, even in his…
Beyond Cuba and Castro
Dear reader, First Things provides a place where faith has a voice. Will you make sure that…
So ISIS Is Not Infidel—Are Christians?
The Egyptian university, Al-Azhar, the world’s oldest and most prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship, refused to…
Kowtowing to Moscow = Bad Ecumenism
In his tireless work for Christian unity, St. John Paul II often expressed the hope that Christianity…
Ecumenism and Russian State Power
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department of external relations and a frequent…
Fatal Revival?
A half century ago, a little book, titled “Kyrosed och secularisering” (Church Customs and Secularization) appeared in…
In Belgium, Two Types of Bishops
For at least half a century, the revival of Catholicism in its traditional heartlands has been a…
Is Latvia Putin’s New Target?
In May 2014, I attended an interfaith conference in Kosovo where I met Janis Priede, an associate…
Medieval Golden Age, Modern Barbarism
Earlier this year, as conflict raged in northern Syria, two professors, one Lebanese and the other American,…
