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Unlearned Lessons of 9/11, a Quarter-Century Later
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (123+ words) Here is what I replied, as recounted in Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II: How does that analysis stand up, twenty-five years later? George Weigel’s column “The Catholic Difference” is syndicated by the Denver Catholic, the…...
A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto
1+ week, 4+ day ago (188+ words) to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. In those innocent...law of gravity. So at the beginning of another school year, however absurdly early its beginning, I’m...the first weeks of third grade in…...
Charlie Kirk???s Evangelical Populism
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (303+ words) globalism. By 2014, the religious nones had hit a new high of around 23 percent, according to Pew. Finally,...
The Monstering of Evangelicalism
1+ week, 4+ day ago (838+ words) The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. The Week hired me for my politics, but my faith soon came in handy too. I was the only visibly practicing evangelical on the writing staff,…...
Equipping the Church for the IVF Era
3+ week, 1+ day ago (599+ words) The elders were at a loss for words. They knew that the church had not directly addressed this issue before and that Anna hadn’t spoken to any of the pastors or leaders about it. What should they make of Anna’s…...
The Horror of an Impotent God
4+ day, 16+ 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…...
The Left Is Right About the Bible
2+ day, 56+ min ago (120+ words) It is only upon readers who wish to see a Christian civilization survive and develop that I am urging the importance of the study of Latin and Greek. If Christianity is not to survive, I shall not mind if the…...
Pope Leo's Unified Church
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (76+ words) Image by Sipa USA via AP. Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at…...
Christianity Is Not a Tool
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,…...