Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear Antonín Dvořák

Santiago Ramos

Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang…

Are Protestants Heretics?

Edward T. Oakes

My lucubrations for today’s webposting would like to argue just this one single point: Doctrinal clarity is…

Our New Group Blog

Anthony Sacramone

. . . has been up and opining almost a week now¯as distinguished from our Daily Article…

Francisco Nava Confesses

Ryan T. Anderson

Reports are coming in that Francisco Nava has confessed to Princeton Township Police. Apparently he was behind…

Lost in Translation

Stefan McDaniel

“Translations are like lovers: There are those that are beautiful but untrue¯and those that are true but…

God in the Gallery

Matthew Milliner

Numerous illustrations—absorbing, beautiful ones—of both the Vulgate Bible and the Divine Comedy by the Surrealist painter Salvador…

The January Issue of First Things Is Here!

Joseph Bottum

“The defense of life,” declares Princeton University’s Robert P. George, “calls America back to the founding principles…

A Mormon in the White House

Richard John Neuhaus

On Opinion Journal earlier this week, John Fund opines on the Mormon factor in Mitt Romney’s presidential…

The Pope Writes to Chinese Catholics; Stanley Fish’s Take on Richard Dawkins & Co.¯with Unhappy Consequences for Reason

Richard John Neuhaus

Pope Benedict’s letter this past week to the Catholics of China is a development of potentially historic…

The Devil’s Party

Alan Jacobs

The film version of The Golden Compass opens on December 7 and it’s worth remembering that the…

Majority Rules

Lewis Ayres

Voting About God in Early Church Councils by ramsay macmullen yale university press, 192 pages, $30 What…

Saving Ecumenism from Itself

Avery Cardinal Dulles

The Oberlin conference on The Nature of the Unity We Seek, which met fifty years ago, in…

Sola Gratia and Mary’s Immaculate Conception

Edward T. Oakes

The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year following its initial…

The Most Beautiful in All Christendom …

Michael Linton

It’s probably the best music in New York. OK, I’m not in New York, I’m in Tennessee.…

Embryonic Stem Cells and Those Pro-Science Pro-Lifers

Joseph Bottum

If the news of major breakthroughs in cell research should turn out to be correct, we are…