November 2017
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Briefly Noted
John Witherspoon’s American Revolution: Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the…
Talking to Heraclitus
“Life has the name of life but in reality it is death,” writes Heraclitus. No Bronx boy,…
Thus Saith the Lord
One Sunday in high school, we went to the Anglo-Catholic parish where my headmaster served as an…
Beware of Dog
Pets are replacing America’s children. According to the marketing research firm Mintel, two-thirds of American pet owners…
The Butcher and Mrs. Bulstrode
Yom Kippur is coming. After forty days of special prayers and reflection, we enter into a day…
Letters
BURNING BRIDGES I would like to thank First Things for the kind invitation to respond to Fr.…
A Christian Strategy
The problem is the relentless aggression of liberalism, driven by an internal mechanism that causes ever more…
Luther at 500
It all did start with the ninety-five theses, in a sense. Luther probably did not actually nail…
The Myth of Scientific Objectivity
My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a…
By Starlight Undiminished
On behalf of the Second Continental Congress in declaring America’s independence, Jefferson in the first paragraph of…
Building Bridges, Not Walls
While visiting Mexico last February, Pope Francis intervened in America’s political battles. Although he did not mention…
Shock of the Real
Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipéeby victor segalentranslated by natasha lehreratlas, 136 pages,…
The Gospel According to
David Bentley
The New Testament: A Translationby david bentley hartyale, 616 pages, $35 David Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation…
An Integrated Humanist
John Senior and the Restoration of Realismby francis bethel, o.s.b.thomas more, 452 pages, $34.99 H igher education…
Rare and Common Sense
Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worldsby philippe paquettranslated by julie rosela trobe, 720 pages, $59.99 It is a…
The Untrue Artist
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his…
Ode to King David
Goliath Picture a twelve-year-oldwith round rocks for his slingfacing the fearsome, boldGoliath. In a ringtwo armies stand…
Jeremiah’s Lament for Josiah
Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah —2 Chronicles 35:25 Weep, oh weep! Josiah’s dead, the child-king…
Going Out
I was nervous as a child though now I’m not.I used to dream. I used to dream…
Salome
I wonder who taught Salome to dance,To wave her arms, to drop her final veil.For all her…
Ember Days
September 1: Though acorns start to fall,And equinox is still three weeks away,We lose the evanescent light…
