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In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring: an invitation to play football at Harvard. It was “the biggest high...

Today, I’m writing a check to First Things.  I still write checks. For baffled readers born after 1990: a check is a slip of paper that you fill out...

In 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern at Judson Memorial Church in Washington Square. She hadn’t expected to get...

Last fall, when I took my daughter to her college orientation, all new students had been issued ID lanyards, to which they were invited to affix pronoun stickers. To...

Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that, nearly a year into the baby formula shortage, many families are still struggling to feed their infants. A recent survey by...

The phone of my childhood was a chunky white box with a rotary dial. It hung on the wall of the kitchen, next to the door that led to...

I have never stood in front of a blast furnace, or ventured into the bowels of a steamship where coal is shoveled into a gaping maw of fire. But...

Brisbaneby eugene vodolazkinplough, 343 pages, $26.95 Brisbane is shadowed by war. When Kyiv-born Russian author Eugene Vodolazkin wrote the novel in the aftermath of the Maidan revolution, that war...

In the first, surreal weeks of the lockdowns of 2020, we all marveled at how COVID had hit at just the right time. Thanks to our Silicon Valley saviors,...