Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Approaching God: The Way of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Approaching God: The Way of Abraham Heschel by John C. Merkle Liturgical Press, 121 pages, $19.99 The…
Santa Claus and the Christmas Wars
What ought to be a time of meditative joy and happy celebration has become a time for…
Advent Carol
Hush that anguished hymn you’re humming: “Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” Trumpet Christmas! Fix his coming firmly at…
Reformation Day
It was around two o’clock in the afternoon on the eve of the Day of All Saints,…
A Tiny Pietà
My unborn son’s story began, five years before he died, on my parents’ screened-in porch on a…
On War and Apocalypse
My work has often been presented as a discussion of archaic religion through comparative anthropology. Its goal…
Defining Discourse Down
No one has mistaken our day as an age of powerful, rational discourse. The McLaughlin Group doesn’t…
Confessions of a Coward
Early in April, with the publication of the May issue of First Things, I stepped out from…
Death on a Friday Afternoon
Exploration into God is exploration into darkness, into the heart of darkness. Yes, to be sure, God…
Either Way, Amalek Must Die: A Passover Meditation
During the Passover Seder, Jews recite the following verse from Jeremiah 10:25: “Pour out your wrath on…
The Freedom of Heaven & the Freedom of Hell
Woodrow Wilson once remarked that the purpose of the modern university was to make young men as…
Whatever Happened to Susan Pevensie?
It’s one of childhood’s great narrative shocks. Susan Pevensie is no longer a friend of Narnia. The…
The “American” Religion
The great contest is over the culture, the guiding ideas and habits of mind and heart that…
For Pro-Lifers, A New Day
The worst aspect of an Obama presidency, I have been telling friends for months, will be his…
Rocky Is My Prayer Partner
In the sixth installment of the Rocky series¯which opens today¯a fifty-something-year-old Rocky Balboa sits nervously awaiting the…
