Christmas by Dickensian Decree
by Algis Valiunas“Keeping Christmas well” entails rather more than Dickensian high spirits and well wishing to all comers. Continue Reading »
“Keeping Christmas well” entails rather more than Dickensian high spirits and well wishing to all comers. Continue Reading »
First Things shines a light on mankind’s central predicament: our critical need for God, which is obscured by the distractions and temptations of a fallen world. Continue Reading »
To tell dark stories at Christmas is to acknowledge the reality of the encompassing darkness into which the light of Christ is born. Continue Reading »
In this season of charity, perhaps we can reconsider the unjustly maligned reputation of Fritz, the troublemaker child in the Nutcracker ballet. Continue Reading »
Vaccine passport mandates violate the unity of the body of Christ; as such, they are a most egregious denial of the heart of the gospel. Continue Reading »
As George Bailey reminds us, our home is always there waiting for us, if only we have the eyes to see it. Continue Reading »
First Things remains an indispensable voice for a politics of community, demanding that we treat our own better, and that we not favor the international financial class over the people who are the backbone of our society. Continue Reading »
The common, everyday, petty baseness of people is far more frightening than the most horrific fictional characters. Continue Reading »
The earthiness of Christmas proclaims and celebrates an enfleshed, divine savior, once an infant, who ennobles and transforms all the givens of the human condition. Continue Reading »
The Christian story is the true myth, making concrete, clear, and present what the pagans had perceived only dimly and distantly. Continue Reading »