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Irony of Episcopal History
Allen Guelzo observes in his history of the Reformed Episcopal Church that historians of American Episcopalianism are…
Imposing Order
In his The Undoing Project (205-8), quotes two lengthy passages from a 1972 lecture by Amos Tversky…
Psych Tests
Two test questions from Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project (184-5, 192-3). Q. In a family of six…
Of Swedes and Indians
Religion News Service reports on a Pew survey of the religious makeup of the 115th Congress: “Nearly…
Distance and Decision-Making
Michael Lewis is the writer every writer wants to be. Every book since Liar’s Poker has been…
He Did Not Know Her
Joseph did not know his wife until she gave birth to a Son (Matthew 1:25). Why not?…
Shūsaku Endō’s Silence and Faithfulness
Readers of First Thoughts will know by now that Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence by Shūsaku Endō…
Urban Utopia
Eric Gilchrest (Revelation 21-22 in the Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism) suggests that the conclusion vision…
Watchers
The angelic “guards” at the gates of the new Jerusalem are, argues Margaret Barker (Revelation of Jesus…
Ciceronian Times Call for Ciceronian Voices
It has become a commonplace among Christians to draw an analogy between our day and the first…
Christ’s Three-Fold Coming in Music
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Cultureby markus ratheyoxford university press, 432 pages, $65 Centuries before…
A Wonderful(?) Life
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Senior editor Mark Bauerlein and associate editor Julia Yost…
What We’ve Been Reading—12.16.16
Elliot Milco Here are some awesome books that you should be reading, or thinking about buying, for…
A Merry Pascalian Christmas!
Two weeks ago I concluded my annual course on the Reformation in traditional fashion, with a lecture…
No, Junior, the Catholic Church is not the Same as ISIS
A seventh-grader recently asked me how to respond to his peer’s obstinate claim that he and the…
