Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: Neocons v. Theocons: The Sequel
Evangelicals have never forgotten, and for good reason they have never forgotten, that Washington Post story of…
Murder in the Vicarage
The Lighthouse by P.D. James Knopf, 352 pages, $25.95. IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction,…
Hylden: Choosing a College
It begins in earnest when the viewbooks start to come in the mail. Mounds of them, innumerable…
RJN: The Times and the Church
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
Oakes: Nihilism and Iraq
Midterm congressional elections in the United States are barely two weeks away, and all the polls I’ve…
Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately
A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…
Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar
It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…
Rose: Abortion and Public Reason
Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and…
Anderson: The Family vs. the State
Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…
Rose: Wilson, Dawkins & Co.
Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural…
Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver
Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…
Bonus article available
As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second…
Rose: String Theory and All That
Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the holy grail of physics¯the prophesied Theory of Everything¯or a…
George: No Tired Meme
Over at the Mirror of Justice website, law professor Eduardo Peñalver keeps reasserting his arguments for why…
Miller: Transgressive Art Pacified
Characteristic of postmodernist art is transgression, the idea that the artist ought to produce works that violate…