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- 1From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)When all Jews prayed, quipped the editor of a Reform prayer book of a past generation, one siddur (prayer book) sufficed for all; now that few Jews pray, there's a different siddur for every taste. As Kevin Madigan and...
- 2From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 174)The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. --T.S. Eliot San Francisco is a city without graves. In 1900, the board of supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting burials...
- 3From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)On March 14, 2010, Richard Dawkins spoke at the 2010 Global Atheist Conference in Melbourne, Australia. At one point, Dawkins referred to Pope Pius XII as "Pope Nazi." Dawkins is a zoologist by trade, not a historian....
- 4From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 158)Joseph Bottum's prudential claim ("Christians and the Death Penalty," August/September) that Christians must deny secular democracies the fight to enact stories of high justice is challenging and attractive. After all,...
- 5From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)Advocates for homeschooling are well represented in the religious blogosphere, and they rarely miss an opportunity to point out elements of state-sponsored education that their children are mercifully spared. This...
- 6From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 199)It is a curious formula, that phrase "American exceptionalism." As commonly used, the phrase suggests that the United States somehow escaped the typical patterns of history--the patterns that seemed almost inviolable...
- 7From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)So many UFO books; so little time. Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men. A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials, by Hugh Ross, Kenneth R. Samples, and Mark Clark, is one of those books, and to the...
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- 9From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)This issue marks, as you may have already noticed, the redesigned layout of FIRST THINGS. The blame for all this belongs solely to me, the editor, for I'm the one who decided that the old layout had grown tired and...
- 10From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 194)We all knew this fight was coming. The Catholic Church and the Catholic colleges have been heading toward a crash since at least 1990, when John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae, his apostolic constitution for Catholic...
- 11From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 195)I once accused the young convert poet Robert Lowell of espousing Catholicism with all the marital fidelity of a gigolo on the make. Whatever the state of his personal faith as it developed through the 1940s and lapsed...
- 12From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 185)I America was Methodist, once upon a time--Methodist, or Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Congregationalist, or Episcopalian. A little light Unitarianism on one side, a lot of stern Calvinism on the other, and the Easter...
- 13From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 188)Joseph Bottum's article, "The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline" (August/September 2008) is, as usual, a tour de force. He rightly notes that the Mainline Protestant...
- 14From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 169)I am grateful for Joseph Bottum's "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America" (October 2006). Trying to get a handle on the state of the Catholic Church in the United States is a monstrous...
- 15From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 178)--Joseph Bottum For Timothy Murphy God gives all He has to give-- His son to speak that one word, Live....
- 16From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 152)Easter Morning for Rene Girard Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain. Thrusts of witch-hazel, stands of rue, and there--there, across the stream, in the shade of those...
- 17From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 143)THE POETRY OF JOHN PAUL II--ROMAN TRIPTYCH: MEDITATIONS. Translated by JERZY PETERKIEWICZ. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 40 pp. $19.95. POLAND WENT THROUGH something of a golden age of poets ha the...
- 18From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 145)In "The End of the Pins Wars" (April), Joseph Bottum pleads for more vigorous efforts "to correct the slander of Pius XII." While welcoming Jose Sanchez' book Pius XII and the Holocaust as well as my article "The...
- 19From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)At Fox News, Brenda Buttner is. So are Gretchen Carlson, Jamie Colby, Juliet Huddy, Terry Keenan, Martha MacCallum, Jane Skinner, Greta Van Susteren, Dana Perino, Christine Clayburg, and (by the way) Steve Doocy....
- 20From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 204)Oh, my. "VU Aims to Move Beyond Tolerance," the headline reads, above a local story about a public meeting to discuss new directions for Valparaiso University, as put forward by the school's "Diversity Concerns...