Your conscience is your own affair; but you are a statesman! “When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.” Sir Thomas More may indeed be a man for all ...
The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the ...
If he wakes me up today, God has something he wants me to do. Im your sister, youre my brother. We are all the samethats why we need to love everybody. Truisms get their name because they are, well, true. But not the sort of truth that is going to ...
The fire dances with hypnotic frenzy, shedding blaze and shadow across the room. Fevered palms fumble, shoulders tremble, and hearts heave. Do you truly love me?Trust me. But when will you come back?Soon, very soon. It is a steamy scene, a raging, ...
Macbeth is Shakespearean tragedy at its scariest. It opens with a crash of thunder and a flash of lightening, with a hurly-burly of fog and filthy air, with three spellbinding wicked witchesand it only gets worse from there. Notoriously difficult to ...
I was hoping she was expelled from school or into hard drugsNothing, it seems, could be worse in parents eyes than having a teenage daughter get pregnant. Especially when its going to last for nine months. But as a New York Times headline announced ...
There are questions so big they’re almost laughable. What is the meaning of life? for instance. We’ve been grappling with that one ever since Adam and Eve saw the first exit sign. Our modern technology promises many blessings, but a GPS of ...
A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things—but lacks the shelf space to hold them. Ideally, he’d like to donate them to a library and only asks to be reimbursed for postage. If you know of a place that could put these ...
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You cant read much about religion today without encountering these adjectives, each intended to leave religious belief with a tired, messy, belittled sort of look. You ...
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