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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

Periodical for academics, clergy, journalists, and others.

Safekeeping.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

An uncommon word.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

How Catholic is Notre Dame?(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

Life issues and the negotiable.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

Prophesying to the Breath.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

A commonplace book.(Opinion)
May 01, 2008

Drinking Stars.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

Wisdom 13:5-9.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

Missing mass.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

The Better Part of Valor.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

Charity's Gift.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

American Crust.(Poem)
May 01, 2008

The Crescent and the Scimitar.(Book review)
May 01, 2008

Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence.(Briefly Noted)...
May 01, 2008

Chance or Purpose?(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008

William F. Buckley Jr. and the possibilities of life.(The Public Squar...
May 01, 2008

Canada is in the odd position among the nations of the world in that i...
May 01, 2008

Come an election year and there is a renewed flurry of interest in wha...
May 01, 2008

Many are the uses of the poor, and India is a veritable cornucopia of ...
May 01, 2008

What's So Great About Christianity.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book...
May 01, 2008

The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West.(Briefly Not...
May 01, 2008

Late Have I Loved Thee: Selected Writings oF Saint Augustine on Love.(...
May 01, 2008

Faith in the Halls of Power.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review...
May 01, 2008

Max Stackhouse of Princeton Theological Seminary has been working for ...
May 01, 2008

John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California, ...
May 01, 2008

Parental choice in education, through vouchers or some other instrumen...
May 01, 2008

History of the Book in Canada is a $200 set of three volumes and almos...
May 01, 2008

"American Catholics in the New Gilded Age.".(While We're At It)(Brief ...
May 01, 2008

One of the most admired figures in Poland during the Solidarity period...
May 01, 2008

I reviewed a book for the New York Sun in which I had occasion to rema...
May 01, 2008

Some points about Calvinism.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

Published accounts and personal conversations about the recently concl...
May 01, 2008

Oh, what a delicious brouhaha this is.(While We're At It)
May 01, 2008

Saving some more.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

Contemptus mundi and the love of life.(Opinion)(Essay)
May 01, 2008

Uncomfortable unbelief.(A Secular Age)(Book review)
May 01, 2008

Child of the revolution.(His Illegal Self)(Book review)
May 01, 2008

In late February, much news attention was paid the "U.S. Religious Lan...
May 01, 2008

The former editor of America, a Jesuit weekly, offers his response to ...
May 01, 2008

During this past Lent of the Long Lent that is the Church's period of ...
May 01, 2008

Here is a promising new beginning.(While We're At It)(Catholic Associa...
May 01, 2008

Priest and ringmaster.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Relig...
May 01, 2008

Marx, Freud, and, above all, Nietzsche are atheists for whom one can h...
May 01, 2008

As I may have mentioned before, when in 1983 we launched the Center on...
May 01, 2008

Part of the vitality, and of the vacuity, of evangelical Protestantism...
May 01, 2008

I came across this the other day on a website designed for Protestant ...
May 01, 2008

The most distinguished public award offered by Notre Dame University i...
May 01, 2008

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" writes a reader who pick...
May 01, 2008

Yes, it is true, I occasionally criticize our parish newsletter, the N...
May 01, 2008

"Mormons Dismayed by Harsh Spotlight" is the headline on the front pag...
May 01, 2008

It is a very old question and, quite understandably, people keep askin...
May 01, 2008

Dealing with sin and forgiveness in the public realm is a very tricky ...
May 01, 2008

In sharpest contrast to Hillel Halkin's reflection is a long editorial...
May 01, 2008

The expensive wraparound of this issue of Publishers Weekly is promoti...
May 01, 2008

It was in 1988 that we hosted Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who gave our ...
May 01, 2008

It seems the tide has turned in public attitudes toward abortion.(Whil...
May 01, 2008

"Let's get rid of all the nuclear weapons in the world.".(While We're ...
May 01, 2008

Those of a certain age may remember, as do I, the evening of March 23,...
May 01, 2008

The freedom of theology.
May 01, 2008

Shakespeare's religion.
May 01, 2008

A marriage in full.
May 01, 2008

Inner-city ministry, as it was called, was all the rage when I was a y...
May 01, 2008

Why, a reader asks, do we permit Professor Thomas Derr to set the maga...
May 01, 2008

Jews as the Romans saw them.(Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient ...
May 01, 2008

The Music of the Spheres.(Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imag...
May 01, 2008

Immigration and Caesar.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008

The ethics of immigration: an exchange.
May 01, 2008