Jacquelyn Lee

In 1932, while covering a worker’s strike in Washington, D.C., Dorothy Day said a prayer. Since her conversion to Catholicism, she felt that she could no longer join such strikes. Joining a strike was an expression of ­solidarity—and fundamental philosophical differences prevented true . . . . Continue Reading »

The intellectual formation provided by these pages has prepared me to commit myself to living according to a set of ideals ordered toward the highest good. Continue Reading »

The commandments “till it and keep it” and “be fruitful and multiply” are wed to each other. Continue Reading »

First Things has persuaded me many times of truths it’s increasingly difficult to hear amidst all the shouting in the public square. Continue Reading »