Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

God Never Loses

Charles J. Chaput

The following remarks were prepared earlier this year for the 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honoring Attorney…

The Truth About Diversity Training

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christopher Rufo discusses critical…

Why American Pickle Falls Flat

Liel Leibovitz

American culture these days has so many fault lines that it’s hard to know which ones will…

September 11, 2020

R. R. Reno

I put on a dark suit this morning, something somber for this day of remembrance. Instead of…

Wanted: Solomons

Peter J. Leithart

COVID-19 has reignited America’s “science wars.” Many Americans are skeptical about the efficacy of lockdowns and masks…

Religious Freedom: Bleached, Blanched, and Rinsed Out

George Weigel

Father Richard John Neuhaus put two Big Ideas into play in American public life. The first was…

A Statement on Public Officials and Public Office

Evangelicals and Catholics Together

Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) is a bilateral ecumenical initiative dedicated to discussing theological and cultural topics.…

Native Americans in the Land of Uz

John Wilson

When you are a child, you notice all sorts of things that you can’t articulate until you…

Rule of Law Imperiled

R. R. Reno

Unrest continues in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake. News of street…

Tell Us What You Think

The Editors

You’re pretty well informed about what First Things writers are thinking. Those who subscribe to the print…

The Woman Who Inspired Wicca

Francis Young

Just under a century ago, in 1921, one of the strangest books ever to be published by…

Keep Christ at the Center

Samuel J. Aquila

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” These words from W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”…

When Theory Wasn’t Political

Mark Bauerlein

Back in 1984 or so, Jacques Derrida came to UCLA to deliver a lecture to the English…

Toppling Priorities

Hans Boersma

The present trumps the past. Such is the rock-bottom conviction of our culture. Scientific and economic advances…

Woke Ideology at Catholic Colleges

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. C. C. Pecknold joins contributing…