In 1984, a Virginia physician named H. Barry Jacobs announced a plan to broker human kidneys on the open market. Congress responded within months. The National Organ Transplant Act... The…
First Things ↗At the beginning of the twentieth century, materialists could feel triumphant. The four preceding centuries had yielded a rich harvest of scientific discoveries that fortified the materialist worldview, drawing... The…
First Things ↗Peter Harrison. Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age. Cambridge University Press, 2024. $39.99. 488 pp.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Matthew Arbo. The Pursuit of Character: Recovering the Virtues. Baker Books, 2026. $19.99. 160 pp.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Timothy S. Goeglein joins in to discuss his recent book, What Really Matters: Restoring a... The…
First Things ↗Peter Thiel’s recently leaked lectures on the Antichrist—recorded secretly and published last year by The Guardian—reveal a worldview aligned with the apocalyptic anthropology of René Girard, the late theorist of... The…
First Things ↗When my younger brother, Rick, and I were boys in Pomona, California, our mother and grandmother would tell us now and then about their life in Shanghai in the... The…
First Things ↗One consistently important practice for Christians since the early days of the church has been Bible reading. So how did they read the Bible? And how might knowing more about…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Welcome to a new, quarterly column at Mere Orthodoxy: the Heron.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗I ‘m late to the party, but, at a friend’s suggestion, I recently watched Detectorists, a BBC Four comedy that ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2022. Created,... The…
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