Robert Louis Wilken—radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy—died on June 6, a few months short of age ninety. Curiously enough,... The…
First Things ↗Psalm 11 doesn’t besmirch utilitarian motivations for seeking refuge in God. It just won’t let you stop there. It directs us past the desire for earthly safety to the ultimate…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗How we talk about our lives and desires is telling. Our speech about vacations and retreats reveals that Americans both in and outside of the church have accepted a particular…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Great Books are back on everyone’s mind. Christopher Nolan is making a film about one. Many fear a sacrilege—with good reason: Nolan is reported to approve of Emily Wilson’s... The…
First Things ↗In the fall of 1992, a Yale freshman named Jared Waxman wrote a letter to the editor of the Yale Herald. The Yale Freshmen Assembly had been held on... The…
First Things ↗Novelists, playwrights, and historians, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) were also the supreme chroniclers of the Parisian literary and artistic life of their time. The diary... The…
First Things ↗What the next generation needs is not our ability to catch a vibe, a wave, a revival, or a trend. Vibes shift and shift again. What they need is our…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗What do we do to avoid becoming people who want all the ease, speed, and information without any of the work to get it?
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Bella d’Abrera joins in to discuss her recent book, Mindless: How the Education System is... The…
First Things ↗And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit ordination of four new bishops, and the Vatican has responded with the... The…
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