First Things
An Episcopal seminary found a solution to its fiscal woes. Then 7 bishops intervened.
By Bob Smietana — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — A group of seven New York-area bishops have objected to a long-term lease for General Episcopal Seminary, saying the lessee, a Catholic school, has a donor that does not support rights for gay, transgender and queer people.
How wearing masks and masculinity got confused
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 9, 2020
(RNS) — Some of the most robust arguments against masks have also come from some of the political and religious right’s paragons of performative masculinity.
Letter: Nationalism is anathema to Christian faith
By Yonat Shimron — August 19, 2019
(RNS) — The letter in the magazine Commonweal was a direct response to a letter in the conservative journal First Things that embraced the new nationalism.
Paid family leave is a pro-life issue that can unite Republicans and Democrats
By Charles C. Camosy — August 14, 2019
(RNS) — Besides giving women hope of affording an unintended child, paid family leave is 'associated with drops in perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, and child mortality.' Hard to get more pro-life than that.
Tempest in a Catholic teapot
By Mark Silk — August 11, 2017
What to make of those conservative converts?
Mormons, Evangelicals, and the Trinity
By Jana Riess — May 24, 2016
Evangelical seminary president Richard Land said yesterday that the Mormon Jesus is not our Jesus. But instead of focusing on actual differences, like Mormons' and evangelicals' views on the Trinity, his remarks reveal a deep misunderstanding of Mormon theology.
Top Catholics and evangelicals: Gay marriage worse than divorce or cohabitation
By David Gibson — January 28, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) Growing acceptance of same-sex marriage will undermine society by eliminating any moral compass except that which the state declares to be the norm, leading Catholics and evangelicals say.
1 in 3 Americans want a divorce between clergy and civil marriages
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 2, 2014
Many say it's time for clergy to quit saying "By the power vested in me by the state … " during a church wedding.
ANALYSIS: Is ‘Just War’ doctrine another victim of the Syrian conflict?
By David Gibson — September 11, 2013
(RNS) The central problem is not that the just war doctrine is being dismissed or condemned, but that both sides in the debate over Syria are citing just war theory, but are reaching diametrically opposed conclusions.
Christianity Today’s Books & Culture survives the chopping block
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 9, 2013
NEW YORK (RNS) Since it start in 1995, Books & Culture has been hailed for showcasing high-quality essays by top-shelf writers, and for providing evidence of robust evangelical engagement with philosophy, the arts and other cultural and intellectual pursuits.
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