Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Rise of Anti-Art
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Michelle Kamhi…
What We’ve Been Reading—May 2020
Mark BauerleinContributing Editor I just started reading Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell’s blockbuster 1936 novel of…
Games Intellectuals Play
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet met for the first time, Vice President Lyndon Johnson waxed…
The Literature of Pestilence
During this pandemic, which has been documented nearly to exhaustion, two themes have captured my attention. The…
The Business of Bible Translation
Daniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees comes out today from Slant, the excellent literary…
The Consolation of Poetry
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Micah…
In God’s Time
Ash Wednesday fell on February 26 this year, only five days after Italy recorded its first case…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, May 12
Tuesday: Bright morning sunshine, but cool temperatures. It’s been a chilly spring. I’m still running the space…
A Wafer-Thin Practice
Who would have thought that a virus would make us reflect deeply on what it means to…
Because Another Wept
Let’s put aside, for a moment, debates about infection rates, IFRs, modeling, dying “from” v. dying “with,”…
The Far Side of Suffering
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Clare Carlisle…
Learning How to Die
How should colleges educate students? We have wandered a long way from what Michel de Montaigne thought…
A Visit to 1990
In my first column for First Things, posted on April 13, 2018, I recalled a day in…
Who Was William Faulkner?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Carl Rollyson…
What We’ve Been Reading—April 2020
R. R. Reno When I was a teacher I would advise students to read dead writers. “Let…
