Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Dostoevsky’s Credo
What does it mean to believe something? Is it possible for a person to profess an idea…
Finding Faith in the Fragments
When your parents were married for seventeen years before you were born, as mine were, you spend…
God and Man at Wheaton
Wheaton College once produced some of the boldest Christian voices in America. With graduates like Billy Graham,…
Purity Culture Isn’t the Problem
The last decade witnessed a sharp turn against the so-called purity culture that emerged in the 1990s…
The Future of First Things
I hope you like our new website. Our content remains first-rate. Now, the internet delivers timely and…
Thinking Twice About Re-Enchantment
Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a…
Catholics, Hippocrates, and Reforming American Medicine
I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a…
America’s Earliest Martyrs for Marriage to be Beatified
In the late sixteenth century, indigenous Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars in missions along the Georgia…
The Lessons of Fr. Paul Mankowski
Paul Mankowski, S.J., who died unexpectedly four years ago this past fall, was the kind of priest…
To Hell with Notre Dame?
I first visited the University of Notre Dame du Lac (to use its proper inflated style) in…
Redemption Before Christ
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gerald R. McDermott joins…
The Theology of Music
Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de…
The Old Testament Roots of American Christian Music
One need not be a historian of the Puritans and their quest for a New Jerusalem to…
Past and Future Hopes
A year ago at this time, I devoted a column to “Hopes and Wishes for 2024”—mostly hopes,…
Reparations Should Not Trump Communion
Throughout Christian history, periods of social crisis have typically provoked an intensification of the faithful’s belief and…
