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The Saturday after Easter, on a cloudless morning, I fell and shattered my left elbow while taking a walk with my husband. Although the sidewalk is uneven and full. The post Can These Bones Live? appeared first on First Things
The One and the Ninety-Nine:Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagionby luke burgisst. martin’s press, 288 pages, $30 Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,”. The post How to Belong Without Losing Oneself appeared first on First Things
In a recent New York Times guest essay, Catholic writer David Gibson praised Pope Leo for moving his church away from “pelvic theology.” For those unfamiliar with the term,. The post Pelvic Theology, Pelvic Justice appeared first on First Things
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Roger L. Simon joins in to discuss his recent book, EMET. The conversation is embedded. The post Kabbalah and the Future (ft. Roger Simon) appeared first on First Things
In the twentieth century the messengers shot themselves. Most did so metaphorically, of course, though a few machos—Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson come to mind—did literally blow their. The post Paul Celan’s Via Negativa appeared first on First Things
When he was elected bishop of Rome on October 16, 1978, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła had a rather limited experience of the Catholic Church in the United States. He had. The post John Paul II and America appeared first on First Things
Today’s Democratic Party rejects the central claim of the Declaration of Independence—that inalienable rights are given by God, not by government. Last year, Democratic senator Tim Kaine, outraged by. The post How Democrats Turned on Religious Freedom appeared first on First Things
The question of what to do with our Christian inheritance—what we call “cultural Christianity”—has become unavoidable. Cultural Christians wish to preserve the cultural, political, and intellectual traditions and institutions. The post Cultural Christianity’s Ambivalence appeared first on First Things
Life is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, physical or mental diseases, loneliness or old age.” These inspiring words were written. The post The Throwaway Culture Advances appeared first on First Things
In this episode, James R. Wood joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Liberalism Is Christianity’s Prodigal Child” from the June/July 2026. The post Postliberalism and Its Discontents (ft. James Wood) appeared first on First Things
If you are a longtime reader of this column, you know of my frustration with the routine disdain expressed in certain quarters for “series fiction.” Of course sometimes such. The post The Michael Connelly Literary Universe appeared first on First Things
“What is man that thou art mindful of him?”—Psalm 8:4 Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is already being described as the Catholic Church’s great intervention into the. The post In Magnifica Humanitas, Leo Defends the Human Person appeared first on First Things