4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (432+ words) A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on stage at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. At the heart of the play is not simply the question of whether God and demons are…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (188+ words) Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. In those innocent days, these things seemed as immutable as the law of gravity. So at…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (70+ words) Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal… In his breakout 2000 memoir,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (293+ words) First Things The 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture: Only the Old Testament Can Restore America Union League Club, 38 E 37th Street, New York, NY 10016 First Things invites you to join us for the thirty-ninth annual Erasmus Lecture, “Only the Old Testament Can Restore…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (406+ words) One of those eventually expelled was Fredrik Olaus Nilsson, a sailor and the founder of Sweden’s first Baptist congregation in 1848. Reflecting later on his persecution, he wrote: It has been my privilege, for the testimony of Jesus, to be dragged…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (146+ words) Buckingham Palace has updated the official description of the monarch’s role vis-à-vis the Church of England. No longer is the king the “Defender of the Faith”; rather, “His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (316+ words) After learning about the Oaks Retreat during her Auburn tour, Caitlyn Holmes decided to attend the Arch Retreat as a freshman at the University of Georgia. During her sophomore year, she signed up to be a counselor and saw the…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (91+ words) Even the LDS Church’s specific affirmations—that Jesus is divine, that he is our only Savior—aren’t enough. Jeremy M. Christiansen is an associate professor of law at Regent University Law School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In this episode, Matthew…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (249+ words) Offensive Christianity:Restoring the Strength of Men in a Feminized Ageby j. chase davisfounders press, 184 pages, $19.98 A new birth of manliness is a prerequisite for a new birth of offensive Christianity. By “offensive Christianity,” Davis means both a Christianity unworried about…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (152+ words) In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then has made a plausible run at taking the title back. When our…...