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The Source of our Gratitude
On behalf of the board, editors, and staff of First Things: Thank you to our more than three thousand charitable supporters for making our work—this magazine, our website, our...
Save the Date!
Save the date for the 2021 First Things Intellectual Retreat! Our theme is solidarity, and we hope to welcome you to New York for the weekend of August 13...
Just Published: Religion and the Social Sciences
Religion and the Social SciencesConversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smithedited by R. R. Reno and Barbara McClay More often than not it’s a class in the social science that challenges...
On the Square Today
Today in our first feature article, Elizabeth Scalia diagnoses ” A Dictatorship of Sentimentalism “: I wonder if the dictatorship of relativism would be so comfortably entrenched within our society,...
An Open Letter: Christians from Iraq Need Our Help
Germany has taken the initiative to tackle the Iraqi refugee crisis. The German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble proposed to his EU colleagues a plan to accept more Iraqi refugees...
Baltimore and the Legion of Christ
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore has made public a stiff letter of concern about the activities of the Legion of Christ and its lay affiliate, Regnum Christi, setting out...
Update
As those of you who tried to reach us over the weekend will have noticed, we temporarily lost ownership of our domain name, which closed down the site. We’re...
A Kafkaesque Tale
Father Gordon MacRae, a priest of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, has been in prison for more than twelve years, convicted of a sex-abuse crime that he insists...
A Lutheran Pastor Says ‘Here I Stand’ in Delaware
In Delaware, the state legislature is debating embryonic stem cell research. A copy of some correspondence about that debate recently came to us here at First Things , and...
