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Conservatism’s Putin Problem, Revisited
Thomas Hamilton writes to challenge last week’s essay on Putin, nationalism, and globalism. He doesn’t think that I fairly…
A Militant Church
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno and literary editor Matthew Schmitz talk…
Song of the Justified
Romans 8:31–39 is better sung than commented upon. It’s a thrilling, ecstatic hymn of boisterous assurance that…
Painter of Passion
Raphael is, we might think, a painter of abstract and ethereal scenes. Andrew Butterfield says in a…
Austen’s Defects?
Jane Austen has been in the news this week, what with the 200th anniversary of her death…
Cormac McCarthy’s Gnosticism
A TLS review of two books of the Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy notes the hints of holiness in his novels:…
Misrepresenting Moltmann?
In his opening essay in Christian Dogmatics, co-editor Mike Allen quotes George Hunsinger’s claim that Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg,…
Coleridge on Utilitarianism
Responding to a piece defending utilitarianism by one O. P. Q. in the Morning Chronicle, Coleridge writes: …
Return to Paterson
Two weeks after watching, I’m still thinking about Paterson the film and the poem. A few notes:…
Simeon’s Trust
In his book, The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England, Herbert Schlossberg sums up the career…
Absenteeism
Nineteenth-century radical Henry Hunt was once offered a clerical post worth a thousand pounds a year. His duties?…
Conservatism’s Putin Dilemma
Writing in The American Conservative, Paul Gottfried pinpoints the conservative quandary regarding Putin. On the one hand:…
Structure of Philippians
What follows is a rough structural analysis of Philippians. Rough, but perhaps it illuminates: A. Joy in…
Whose Fool?
Paul can sound like the Solomon of Proverbs: “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men…
The Allegory of Troilus
Troilus appears in the Iliad and Aeneid, but only in death scenes. Ancient epics don’t tell the…
