Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Dynamics of Disembodiment

Junior Fellows

In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors.  Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor  Most…

The Lost Modernist

David Bentley Hart

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poetby thomas dilworthcounterpoint, 432 pages, $39.50 The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragmentsby…

The Call to Gift

James P. Shea

This text is adapted from the funeral homily for Don J. Briel, professor at the University of…

Rethinking “Mission Territory”

George Weigel

In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio, Pope Pius X decreed that, as of November 3…

The Atheist’s Imagination

Mark Bauerlein

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker wonders where God was in the Florida shootings. That’s what he said last week…

That Other Side of Jesus

Glenn T. Stanton

Christians around the world have recently begun one of the most important seasons in the liturgical calendar:…

A Good and Faithful Servant

John D. Woodbridge

During his last “crusade,” held in New York City in 2005, Billy Graham, America’s great pastor-evangelist, declared:…

The Unveiling of Jesus Christ

Peter J. Leithart

Apocalypse” is the first word of the last book of the Christian Bible. It means “unveiling,” “disclosure,”…

The Legacy of Billy Graham

Grant Wacker

Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at age 99, may have addressed more people face-to-face than anyone else in…

Conscience and Grace: A Lenten Meditation

George Weigel

The scriptures of Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding…

When I Met Christ

John Waters

They had taken my watch, so I don’t know what time it was when I began to…

Brexit and Enlightenment Man

Dan Hitchens

Scene: the carriage of a London underground train. It is past midnight. The pubs have closed, the parties…

When Is a Lutheran Not a Lutheran?

Carl R. Trueman

Last Sunday, a New Jersey Lutheran church celebrated the transition of its pastor from womanhood to manhood.…

The Impossibility of “Alt-Right Christianity”

Connor Grubaugh

I am not anti-Christian. I’m a Lutheran,” says Hunter Wallace, an alt-right blogger cited in Matthew Rose’s…

How We Normalized Trump

Pete Spiliakos

Books could be (and have been) written on the theme of Donald Trump as immoral and demagogic.…