As you may or may not remember, last week was Pledge Week . This week (or what’s left of it) is Still Another Pledge Week . . . week.
Most such campaigns promise to send you some premium in exchange for a fat donation . We, on the other hand, promise not to send you any of the following items that I managed to cull from our supply closet, old coffee cans, and under office furniture should you favor us with a similarly corpulent contribution :
• A First Things bowling jacket, size XXL (name tag: Gus)
• The official First Things first thing (not quite sure what it is . . . looks like a very old Etch A Sketch )
• A VHS copy of the "Felix and Oscar Join a Fat Farm" episode of The Odd Couple
• A Miguel de Molinos inaction figure (original packaging, slight tear in lower left-hand corner)
• A red biretta
• An inoperable Beretta
• An 8’x10" production still from Baretta
• A hotel register with Aimee Semple Macpherson’s signature and IOU
So please, for your sake as well as ours, dig deep, deep (or, better yet, deeply, deeply) into your pockets¯or one of these treasures might just be yours.
You have a decision to make: double or nothing.
For this week only, a generous supporter has offered to fully match all new and increased donations to First Things up to $60,000.
In other words, your gift of $50 unlocks $100 for First Things, your gift of $100 unlocks $200, and so on, up to a total of $120,000. But if you don’t give, nothing.
So what will it be, dear reader: double, or nothing?
Make your year-end gift go twice as far for First Things by giving now.
