March 2010
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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On the Works of Kahlil Gibran
Alan Jacobs reviewed the great twentieth-century poet’s complete oeuvre, and found it verse than expected. From the…
Contributors
Elliott Abrams , former deputy National Security advisor, is currently a senior fellow at the Council on…
I Want To Burden My Loved Ones
To live or to die? When the time comes, Gilbert Meilaender wants his fate in his family’s…
Once and Future Things
It is astonishing, really, that First Things exists at all. The first set of editors”Richard John Neuhuas…
How The World Lost Its Story
As our changing culture struggled to define itself, the theologian Robert W. Jenson mourned the missing narrative…
Farewell to the Woman Question
A prescient look at the coming postfeminist backlash by Midge Decter , the author of Liberal Parents,…
Christians and Postmoderns
Joseph Bottum, a young medievalist, made his debut in First Things with an account of faith in…
Putting First Things First
In the editorial with which the premiere issue began, First Things announced its arrival on the American…
How I Became the Catholic I Was
The path First Things founder Richard John Neuhaus followed from a Lutheran boyhood to the Catholic priesthood…
Abortion Before Roe
Less than two years after the citizens of Washington voted by referendum to uphold the state’s prohibition…
Snapshots
1990 Liberal public opinion found it easier to accept the defections from the pro-Soviet cause than from…
The Magi
Christmas Eve, the Word made Flesh, We put the baby in the manger, But could not add…
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like…
Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two…
One Darkest Night
One darkest night I went, aflame with love’s devouring eager burning” O fortunate event!” no witnesses discerning,…
The Annunciation
She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why For this romance, Do…
Terra Firma
Yes, you’re right. I’m sure Armageddon’s coming: wars, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, locusts, killer flus, et cetera. Yes,…
The Great Hall
You need only have noticed someone once, and he will have an entree to your dreams for…
Psalm
Give thanks for all things On the plucked lute, and likewise The harp of ten strings. Have…
Rejection Note for Paradise Regained
Loved that first book—it’s got no equal— but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…
The Eve of St. Agnes—Green Bay, 2008
Saint Agnes Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was, The coach for all his sweaters was acold; The team…
Eucalypts in Exile
They’ve had so many jobs: boiling African porridge. Being printed on. Paving Paris, flying in her revolutions.…
