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Confusion of Humanity, Reign of God
As everyone now knows, 2016 has been dubbed the year of the “Flight 93 Election” by an…
On the Theology of Sleep
I have sometimes jokingly told my friends in Opus Dei—the apostolate whose principal characteristic is the sanctification…
Communio Beyond Ecclesiology
Communio has been a key concept in Roman Catholicism over the past century, but David L. Schindler…
Why Do They Shout “Allahu Akbar”?
On Saturday, September 17, Dahir A. Adan, an Islamic State “solider,” according to an ISIS media outlet,…
The Whig Narrative and American Christianity
In the August/September print edition of First Things (Subscribe!) R. R. Reno comments on the puzzling fact…
Guilt and Guilt-Bearing
Brad Littlejohn presents a number of criticisms of my account of penal substitution in Delivered from the…
Atomizing and Abstraction
I’ve been reading commentaries on Revelation 1:12–20, learning a great deal, but getting increasingly frustrated. Even the…
A Vote for Honor
Scott Liebertz is right that one essential ethical justification for a refusal to vote for one of…
Catholics Face a Choice
Catholics face a choice. Will they uphold the Church’s teaching that the divorced and remarried cannot be…
Beyond Language?
In his Anchor Bible commentary on Revelation, Craig Koester says this about John’s initial vision of Jesus:…
Titles We Didn’t Choose — October 2016
The October 2016 issue of First Things is ready for your perusal, in print and on our…
Against Gender
In this episode of the First Things Podcast: Remember that time Slate alerted the civilized world to…
Macbeth’s Three Murders
In a contribution to Harold Bloom’s collection of essays on Macbeth, Robert Lanier Reid observes that ”…
Motiveless Malignity
“What purpose do the Weird Sisters have for confronting the hero—or what is their masters’ purpose, if…
Macbeth and the Bible
Peter Milward writes of “meta-drama” in Hamlet and Macbeth in his contribution Shakespeare’s Christianity. He argues (unconvincingly)…
