When I was a lad, my mother told me about the death of her grandmother in the 1920s. “She was speaking to angels,” mom told me. At least that is what she had told her family gathered around her bed.When I was a hospice volunteer, I visited one of my patients a few days before he . . . . Continue Reading »
During 2011, First Things published over 200 articles in our print edition that were available on our website. The following were the top ten most read: 1. The Trouble with Ayn Rand , David Bentley Hart Civilization teeters on the brink: they’ve made a movie of Atlas Shrugged. 2. The Truth . . . . Continue Reading »
Breaking “The Rules” Doublethink , Eve Tushnet Christian pilgrims flock to Holy Land CNN , Izzy Lemberg Fighting Human Trafficking Patheos , An interview with Charles Powell Christmas and the Philosophers Blog and Mablog , Douglas Wilson How can we remain silent while Christians are being . . . . Continue Reading »
During 2011, First Things published (so far) 1,595 blog posts on First Thoughts. The following were the top ten most read*: 1. Amish Against Orange Produces Greatest Mugshot Ever , Joe Carter 2. Thoughts on the Penn State Scandal , Joe Carter 3. The Gurkha and the Forty Thieves , Joe Carter 4. . . . . Continue Reading »
During 2011, First Things published over 400 original articles in our On the Square section. The following were the top ten most read: 1. Uncredentialed Wonder , Elizabeth Scalia 2. How to Destroy a Culture in 5 Easy Steps , Joe Carter 3. The Fountainhead of Satanism , Joe Carter 4. Palin and the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’ve been listening to 95.7 FM—a genunely outstanding radio station (broadcasting from the foot of Mt. Alto in Rome, GA—although it also serves Trion) featuring the hits from the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties just about all the time. 2. Yesterday and today, they’ve . . . . Continue Reading »
Have there been good Christmas rock songs? I mean Christmas music here, not happy holidays fare like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” etc. The classical canon is of course full of beautiful evocations of Christ’s birth, the annunciation, the flight to Egypt, etc. And then . . . . Continue Reading »
As a Baby Boomer, I have to say I am very disappointed in my generation. We thought we were so different and special. Perhaps we were, but not in the unremittingly beneficial way we thought. We did raise the stock in hubris though, so there is that.I bring this up because of a Mark . . . . Continue Reading »
In þe bigynnyng was þe word, and þe word was at God, and God was þe word.Þis was in þe bigynnyng at God.Alle þingis weren maad bi hym, and wiþouten hym was maad no þing, þat þing þat was maad.In hym was lijf, and þe lijf was þe . . . . Continue Reading »
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