Forbes has been producing its annual list of the world’s billionaires since 1987. Despite landing at the height of 1980’s excess, that original list seems dowdy by today’s standards. In…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗I was in college in New York City in 2010 when I first heard the title, “Evangelical Vatican” to refer to my hometown, Colorado Springs. Born and raised in the…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In early April, Yale University released the “Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education.” The faculty committee had been formed a year earlier, charged with the... The…
First Things ↗The Abuja Affirmation marks the end of an era. The third largest Christian communion, Anglicanism (behind only Catholicism and Orthodoxy), has splintered. While its demise has been a drawn-out... The…
First Things ↗Only he could see them clearly: the wayThey curl their shadows close beneath their leaves, Cupping clefts of glacial cold—how they grow Out of the dead parts of themselves, new stalks To... The…
First Things ↗The sentimental images painted of proud, tight-knit communities slowly crumbling away are compelling, but I have to question if this shift is as bad as D. P. Curtin... The post…
First Things ↗The myth of Narcissus tells of a beautiful young man’s obsession with his own image, captured in a reflecting pool. He scorns all others, so entranced... The post Idle Hands…
First Things ↗Something of a shift in the landscape is signaled when a press like Polity releases, almost simultaneously, two book-length critical engagements... The post Prodigal Child appeared first on First Things.
First Things ↗What if Flannery O’Connor had been forced to live through Australia’s COVID-19 lockdowns and its surrounding political and ecclesiastic paradoxes? A bizarre concept, and yet that’s... The post Briefly Noted…
First Things ↗For years I have aspired to read Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. But bound together the three novels (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and The End of... The…
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