First Things T-Shirt Caption Contest

T-Shirt Contest

If First Things had a t-shirt, what would the caption read? Take part in the First Things T-Shirt Caption Contest! We are accepting readers’ ideas of a one-liner to go under the First Things logo on a t-shirt.

Please submit your name, mailing address, and suggested caption to contest@firstthings.com.

The writer of the caption we choose will receive their captioned t-shirt hot off the press.

Comments (34)

34 Comments

Gregg
July 23rd, 2010 | 9:57 am

Fides quaerens intellectum

Craig Payne
July 23rd, 2010 | 10:08 am

“Everything’s Archai”

Umberto Sanchez
July 23rd, 2010 | 10:33 am

FIRST THINGS
Let’s give ‘em something to talk about

FIRST THINGS
Taking the Naked Public Square Figuratively for 25 Years

FIRST THINGS
It’s OK, We Understand

Sean
July 23rd, 2010 | 10:56 am

Remember the early 90s, when bookstores used to sell t-shirts with charicatures of famous authors on the front and descriptions of their writing on the back? And it was really lame?

Please please please please please don’t do a t-shirt. No good can come of this.

David Goldman
July 23rd, 2010 | 11:10 am

The Asia Times “Spengler” t-shirts have the inscription:
“It’s not the end of the world.
It’s just the end of you.”

Might do double duty.

Krakow
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:12 pm

FIRST THINGS
“We are sheep, telling shepherds what only sheep can tell them.”

Mike Melendez
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:16 pm

I’m partial to the new covers. I would consider a t-shirt that reproduced either of the two so far.

Peter
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:19 pm

My entry:

“WHAT IF IT’S ALL TRUE?”

Steve Marruffo
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:51 pm

Your caption should be a play on the word “first.”

“Make a LASTing Impression. Read First Things.”

“So good, you’ll want seconds. First Things Magazine.”

Sorry, that’s all I could come up with.

Greg Marquez
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:55 pm

How about:
First Things
First

Krakow
July 23rd, 2010 | 1:12 pm

The political Lollapalooza under God.

Craig Payne
July 23rd, 2010 | 1:15 pm

“Reactionaries for a Better Tomorrow”

Sachiko
July 23rd, 2010 | 1:28 pm

FIRST THINGS

Covering the Naked Public Square Since 1994

Huston
July 23rd, 2010 | 1:32 pm

“Twice the middlebrow socio-political commentary from a conservative theological perspective, half the calories!”

Damon Linker
July 23rd, 2010 | 2:06 pm

An Easy Mark

Duke Altum
July 23rd, 2010 | 2:16 pm

“In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity.”

Chris Baker
July 23rd, 2010 | 2:32 pm

Submitted via email as instructed! ;)

Sachiko
July 23rd, 2010 | 2:53 pm

on second thought, maybe none of us wants to think of us as a public square, let alone a naked one. (being a square in private isn’t so bad)

Craig Payne
July 23rd, 2010 | 5:20 pm

“De Hoc Cogitabimus”

(“We’ll think about it”)

Craig Payne
July 23rd, 2010 | 5:20 pm

“Where Faith and Culture Converse”

robert moody
July 23rd, 2010 | 5:51 pm

“The Splendor of Truth”

Eric
July 23rd, 2010 | 7:00 pm

Are there actually “Spengler” t-shirts? Send a link!

Dan Severino
July 23rd, 2010 | 7:31 pm

putting the secondary in its place

Edward Alleyn
July 23rd, 2010 | 7:53 pm

Front:
Nil nisi divinum stabile est

Back:

Caetera fumus

Althea
July 23rd, 2010 | 8:07 pm

“First Things: like FT, but without all the money”

“First Things: Between God and Gomorrah”.

We like the one about the figurative public square, and reactionaries for a better tomorrow, and First Things: First”. Nothing too pompous or pseudo-intellectual please! How about

Althea
July 23rd, 2010 | 8:08 pm

“First Things: a wholly owned subsidiary of the David B. Hart Fan Club”

David T. Koyzis
July 23rd, 2010 | 10:02 pm

“FIRST THINGS: Clothing the public square since 1990.”

Stacey McKenzie
July 23rd, 2010 | 10:23 pm

I also like idea of using the new cover.

Everett Levingston
July 24th, 2010 | 3:53 am

First Things

1)In Good Faith

2)Because Image Isn’t Everything

Anthony Sacramone
July 24th, 2010 | 10:49 am

In hoc liber vinces