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Rival Tidinesses
The Reformation and the Catholic reaction to it caused a massive split within Western Christendom, and further…
Crackdown
“The most influential work of Italian spirituality in these years, the Beneficio di Cristo (published 1543, and…
No Sanctuary
Owen Chadwick devotes a chapter of The Reformation to “the decline of ecclesiastical power.” He reviews the…
Priests, Levites, Bread
1 Chronicles 23 begins the concluding section of 1 Chronicles (chs. 23–29), which is mainly concerned with…
Tallying Up Trump
Trump is an executive, used to making twenty-five major decisions a day. Now the press is watching…
It’s Not a Muslim Ban
This morning at the Law and Liberty site, I have a post on the controversy surrounding President…
Judge Gorsuch’s Prime-Time Humility
So, this is 2017: A few days after issuing an incompetently executed, morally dubious, and in many…
Gorsuch After Scalia
The president’s introduction of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the nation as his nominee for the Supreme Court…
Aging and Ends
A year ago, I had a long debate about aging with a Polish friend while driving from…
Bruckner’s Gethsemane
In the 1950s, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler became a staple of orchestras throughout the world, thanks…
Ite, Missa Est
Missional ecclesiology is all the rage these days, but for many being “missional” means downplaying or even…
Yahweh’s Sorrow
David’s census makes him a Pharaoh but he doesn’t end like Pharoah. It’s not exactly because he…
This American Carnage
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Senior editor Mark Bauerlein talks with associate editor Julia…
The March for Life in Year 44
Since Inauguration Day, critics of Donald Trump have marched, rioted, and verbally abused and in some cases…
Turkish Drummers, the TRC, and the Truth about the Bulls of Donation
From Alanus Anglicus to Pope Nicholas V, a false understanding of the papacy and of papal authority…
