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What a wonderful little pocket of people, I thought. They displayed a sincerity, a genuine desire for truth, that is hard to find these days.
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A study by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education determined that some 19 million black children had been aborted between 1973 and 2015.
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The biggest threat to American’s free and democratic culture comes from establishment politicians in the Democratic party.
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“We are hearing that to be loving we should capitulate on the question of pronouns and telling the truth about whether one is male or female.” |
Video Essay Releases 2/17
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Many Christian institutions have become prone to mission-drift and to conflating voguish pieties with gospel mandates.
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The March issue is live! Read R. R. Reno on Joseph Ratzinger, Matthew Schmitz () on liberation theology, Gary Saul Morson on Pontius Pilate and Russian literature, and Sohrab Ahmari () on the Roman Church.
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"We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” - Winston Churchill
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A documentary about three children “transitioning” does not meet any remotely reasonable standard of “hateful content.” Yet it was cancelled. |
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The “intellectual life of America” at the moment—in Christian circles as much as in “secular” ones—is in thrall to the tyranny of the urgent.
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This is one of those poems that just leaps out by itself and then turns around and with a raised chin gives its author a condescending stare.
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I'm in , writing about a new documentary on trans indoctrination and the latest episode of Big Tech censorship.
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Watch the trailer for First Things’ latest video essay, “Prodigal Evangelicalism.”
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I am jealous of my parents’ generation, now in their sixties, retiring, becoming grandparents. Their current sense of loss comes from knowing what there was to lose.
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There is a wild-haired man in the desert clad in camel skin. He is the start of things. He lives on honey and insects and he calls us to prepare for the coming of one who will baptize not with water but with fire.
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“Evangelical leaders are either being deceived or coopted, but either way they are creating an extra-biblical class of sins.”
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Vimeo recently removed the new documentary “Dead Name,” which traces the harrowing stories of three parents whose children have been snatched away by the trans agenda. |
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I loved 's essay for us in the December issue, so I was delighted when she agreed to do a follow-up video essay. Look for its release next Friday.
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“Prodigal Evangelicalism: A Video Essay” | by @megbasham
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Thanks to First Things for inviting me to do this video essay. Excited to share this with y’all shortly!
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“Prodigal Evangelicalism: A Video Essay” | by @megbasham
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The universalism of Christianity was from the beginning suited to and even prefigured by the political universalism of the Roman Empire.
Roman-ness is of the essence of Christianity.
My review essay in the March First Things.
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Our March issue is live! Featuring Martin Gurri () on the CIA, Paul Kingsnorth on Ireland‘s cave Christians, R. R. Reno on baby boomers, and much more!
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Micah Mattix’s “The Integrity of Poetry” wasn’t only one of my favorite pieces to appear in the magazine for some time, but also one of my favorites among all the pieces I’ve read anywhere in the last ten years. |
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There are still people of faith, and a whole other world outside of this one. I smiled to myself: Thank God for that.
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Mark Bauerlein and Martin Gurri discuss the panic of the elite and what that means about the future. |
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R. R. Reno and Michael Millerman discuss his article “Alexander Dugin Explained” from the February issue. |
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The peril in Russia to genuine Christian faith comes not from tsarism or communism but instead from an emerging global culture that reduces human life to material acquisition and consumption.
From the archives:
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Based on the true story found in the Gospel of John, “Nicodemus” is a contemporized retelling of the biblical account, set in modern day. Get tickets and check out other events here! |
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Abortion license and the institutional heirs of Margaret Sanger have done terrible things not only to the fabric of the African American family and to the moral culture of black American men.
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My journey of faith has been a process of knocking down every single rational barrier that stands between my soul and faith itself. Faith is so hard for people my age.
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At what point does willful ignorance elide into complicity with the decimation of one’s own community?
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H.R. 61’s description of what constitutes “conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime” is truly shocking.
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R. R. Reno and Micah Mattix discuss regaining the voice of poetry as poetry and reviving civilization.
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We can build beautiful schools, knowing that man is made for beauty, that it is intrinsic to human flourishing. |
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We must rebuild, and we must start with robustly Christian colleges. |
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Even on the silver screen, the mythology of the free press—that it stands apart from unaccountable power, that it speaks for the downtrodden against the domineering—has become hard to believe. |
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Thanks to Planned Parenthood clinics and other abortuaries in our inner-city areas, millions of black babies had been killed since 1973.
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H.R. 61 is a menace. It implicates a wide swath of conservative commentators as co-conspirators to any hate crime.
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“How then should we talk about race in America?”
Dr. Joshua Mitchell addresses this topic in his latest for First Things Magazine
Watch the full essay: bit.ly/406I8H3
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The ugliness of architecture is almost everywhere we look. This is the Bad News, the anti-gospel preached by so many contemporary buildings. |
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