Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Oakes: The Body in St. Paul and Benedict XVI
Reports that the South African Parliament has approved gay marriage, and that the U.S. Catholic bishops have…
Bottum: Waiting and Waiting
At least I caught up on my reading. The seventy-fifth-anniversary issue of Fortune was particularly interesting. I…
Arkes: The Commerce Clause Revisited
In the forthcoming January issue of First Things , I have an analysis of the oral arguments…
Powers: Boomers, War, and Sacrifice
We were walking through Central Park in Manhattan, just south of the Naumburg Bandshell, when we came…
Anderson: What Went Right on Tuesday
I’m no expert when it comes to analysis of political trends, party politics, or electoral strategy. But…
Douthat: Reply to Bottum
In his post on the midterm elections and their discontents, Jody Bottum argues that conservatives haven’t made…
Bottum: This Election Is Not What You Think
Since September 11, 2001¯or at least since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, and probably since…
Mathewes-Green: Thoughts on Haggard
I was in Denver for about a hundred minutes this weekend. I hadn’t planned it, but when…
Hylden: An Evening at GTS
Seeing as how I am a new Episcopalian and still learning about my church, I attended a…
RJN: Europe, the Founders, and the Archdiocese of New York
Jewcentricity is a word that will probably not catch on, but Adam Garfinkle employs it to good…
Smith: Derbyshire and Darwin
John Derbyshire, the popular writer for National Review Online , recently published a “self-interview” disclosing how and…
Anderson: The Secret of Embyronic Stem Cells
The truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting…
RJN: Regensburg, TNR, etc.
One of the encouraging developments following Pope Benedict’s lecture at Regensburg University on September 12 is the…
Bottum: On Robertson Davies
Is it just my imagination or has Robertson Davies faded considerably over the past decade? I was…
Miller: Limbo and the Will of God
The International Theological Commission is pondering the fate of children who die unbaptized, with a document expected…