Events
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Intellectual Retreat
August 8 – 9, 2025
New York
2025 First Things Intellectual Retreat in New York City
Please join us as for the 2025 intellectual retreat as we discuss Faith in the Technological Age.

Event
September 18, 2025
Little Rock
Jesus in the Public Square
Join us for the debut of First Things and R. R. Reno in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday, September 18.

Event
September 22, 2025
Austin
2025 Austin Lecture: Can Christianity Be Noble?
Join us on Monday, September 22 in Austin for Matthew Crawford’s lecture on “Can Christianity be Noble?”

Erasmus Lecture
November 3, 2025
New York
The 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture
The thirty-eighth annual Erasmus Lecture will be given by Bishop Erik Varden at the Union League Club of New York on Monday, November 3.

DC Lecture
March 11, 2025
Washington DC
The Hour for a New Humanism
Join us in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 11 at 6 p.m. in Washington, D.C. to hear from First Things contributing editor Carl Trueman on what it means to be human.

DC Lecture
March 4, 2024
Washington DC
Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age
Join us on Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m. in Washington, D.C. to hear from one of conservatism’s brightest and most interesting thinkers, Oren Cass.

DC Lecture
March 7, 2023
Washington DC
Antihumanism and the Post-Political Condition
Join us on Tuesday, March 7 at 7 p.m. to hear Matthew B. Crawford give the sixth annual First Things Lecture in Washington, D.C.