Recently added articles from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life:
Notre Dame, again.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... I find myself in substantial agreement with Joseph Bottum's central thesis("And the War Came" June/July 2009): There is indeed a split happening in American Catholicism, and its fault lines are becoming more and more publicly evident--the Notre Dame controversy is an episode in and a ...
Mary had a little lamb.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Mary Eberstadt's article ("Pro-Animal, Pro-Life," June/July 2009) focused on only one subset of the pro-animal group, namely those who do not want to eat animals. But consider the subset of animals that do not end up on a plate: pets. The increase in throwaway pets--the many ...
Approaching Islam.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... I did not mind that Gabriel Said Reynolds ("Sanctifying Islam" June/July 2009) did not like my positive approach to Islam in The Theology of Tariq Ramadan. If people have suffered under a religion--Irish Catholics under British Protestant rule, Waldensians in culturally Catholic Italy, or ...
But wait, there's more!(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Thomas F. Farr's fine review ("Cold War Religion," June/July, 2009) of William Inboden's fine book, Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1952, notes that "neither Henry Kissinger's magisterial Diplomacy nor Walter McDougall's Pultizer Prize-winning Promised Land, Crusader State, pay ...
Disputed election.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... David P. Goldman's depth of understanding and clarity of exposition in "Jewish Survival in a Gentile World" (June/July 2009) have left me breathless. The last words of the New Testament: "Maran atha, veni domine Iesu!" are full of a longing that demands a fulfillment. But we ...