Slow day on the web today, but here’s what we have for you:
Pete Spiliakos has a list.
Maureen Mullarkey closed out the year with thoughts on visiting the sick.
Here at First Thoughts, Phillip Cary wonders why Genesis doesn’t link sex and procreation until after the fall.
On the Square today, Peter J. Leithart looks at Jesus’ politics, and Peter Sprigg writes on marriage.
In lieu of further content, I present a poem about winter. (If you are not on the East Coast today: Enjoy your warm toes!)
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…