Few women loom as large as Elisabeth Elliot in the pantheon of American evangelical saints. The martyrdom of her missionary husband, Jim Elliot, and colleagues at the hands of the Ecuadorian Auca ...

I appreciate J. H. H. Weiler’s desire for God’s mercy to be extended to Gentiles and his commitment to Torah (“The Scandal of Jewish Belief,” August/September 2026). However, it ...

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier condemnations of ...

In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images of death and dying that disturbed her sleep and haunted her conscience. She didn’t need ...

In his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529 that Machiavelli’s The Prince had inspired King Henry VIII to break with Rome. The ...

The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. I had been working in journalism for about two years when Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015. I was ...

Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth ...

Darel Paul’s excellent First Things article on the Jason Arday scandal pinpoints a number of the problems now rife in academia, problems that I can attest are so well-established that, were they not ...

Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in an evangelical century. Significantly more people are leaving Catholicism than converting to it. By contrast, ...

Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a German-Jewish philosopher. His life and death are the stuff of legend. Born to an assimilated Jewish ...

Frequent confession was once normal—monthly, biweekly, or even weekly. But it became rarer among Catholics formed from the 1970s through the 1990s. Today, many Catholics go to confession only after ...

More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People ...