Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hero in Blue
Few New Yorkers ever have been so admired as police officer Steven McDonald—and not only because he…
Peter Says No
Perhaps the greatest Anglican intellect of the late twentieth century, Henry Chadwick, described Blessed John Henry Cardinal…
Islam and America
A preview of The Public Square, forthcoming in the March issue of First Things. The confirmation hearings…
The Statue of Wokeness
President Trump’s executive order limiting immigration from seven majority-Muslim counties reveals a chaotic, cynical administration—and a hysterical,…
A Papal Tutor of Heroic Virtue
On January 20, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish decrees acknowledging…
Praying for Christian Unity
Fifty-eight years ago this week, on January 25, 1959, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, less than three months into…
The Virtues of the Old Establishment
There is something I miss about George Herbert Walker Bush and the bipartisan establishment he represented. I…
The Politics of Answered Prayer
Unanswered prayer is hard to take. “Ask and it will be given,” Jesus promises. When we ask…
Secular Pilgrims in America
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nationby leigh eric schmidtprinceton university press,…
Silence: Scorsese’s Spiritual Masterpiece
It has taken almost thirty years for Martin Scorsese to film Silence, Shūsaku Endō’s novel about Catholic…
Liturgy of Liberalism
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by ryszard legutko encounter, 200 pages, $23.99 In…
First Things in the Year Ahead
It’s been a remarkable year. The success of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump signal significant…
From Atheism to First Things
At the time I came to First Things in mid-2014, I was just a couple of years…
The Troubling Legacy of Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
Shūsaku Endō’s Silence is now widely regarded as a modern classic. The initial reaction of Japanese Catholics,…
Christmas: “The Full Glorious Yes”
“Christmas comes even in the midst of rubble.” Those words were written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his…
