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A Fighting Publication
We made it! And then some. Our year-end fundraising goal was $1,000,000 from a thousand readers. That…
Why The Night of the Hunter Is a Christmas Movie
The 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter may be one of the best dramatizations of spiritual…
The Undying People
The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…
First Things and the Physical World
Today, I’m writing a check to First Things. I still write checks. For baffled readers born after…
After October 7
For I desire loving kindness, not sacrifices; devotion to God, rather than burnt offerings (Hosea 6:6). Seven…
Augustus and the Salvation of Rome
With the victory of Octavian Caesar, the heir of Julius Caesar, over Antony and Cleopatra at the…
Bring Back Four-Dimensional Bible Reading
The Bible teachers of the Western Middle Ages used an interpretive method known as the “quadriga,” or…
Letters From the Synod 2023: #4
THE SYNOD ON SYNODALITY AND THE WAR OF THE CONCILIAR SUCCESSION Nothing was more predictable than that…
What I Saw at the Longhouse Fashion Show
The Bushwick warehouse is dark and warm, illuminated only by spotlights trained on what is less a…
Keeping the “C” in the YMCA
The Young Men’s Christian Association was birthed in the factories of nineteenth-century London. It then spread around…
Cormac McCarthy’s Miracle
He was a man of miracles,” John Hillcoat writes of his longtime friend, Cormac McCarthy, who died…
What I Would Put in a 2023 Time Capsule
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Notes Toward a Eucharistic Revival
On a Wednesday evening this past Lent, I joined a dozen Catholic young adults for an evening…
Is the Anglican “Reset” Truly Anglican?
The Kigali Commitment of April 21, 2023, was a shot heard around the world. Thirteen hundred Anglican…
Pedagogy of Love
The Shema (Deut. 6:4–9) is a confession about the God of Israel and simultaneously a piety and…
