Event Calendar

Now in its 35th year, the Erasmus Lecture brings world-renowned speakers to New York—including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Gilbert Meilaender, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—to address an audience of over five hundred people each year. The lecture also appears in the pages of First Things and on FirstThings.com.

First Things is pleased to host its 7th Annual Poetry Reading with David Middleton.

Join us at Belmont Abbey College on October 14-15 for the first of what we hope are many regional First Things reader summits. Our topic: Friendship in an Age of Polarization. 

What does “Jesus is Lord” mean in a liberal political culture like our own? What kind of public authority should religious believers seek for God’s revelation? Join us as First Things editor R. R. Reno sits down with New York Times columnist and prolific author Ross Douthat for a timely conversation

Please join us at Austin’s University Avenue Church of Christ to hear contributing editor Carl R. Trueman give a public lecture on “The Sentimental Death of a Culture.”

First Things is hosting our Fall 2022 Intellectual Retreat on Death and Mourning in New York City. We hope to see you there!

First Things is pleased to invite you to a public lecture in Kansas City, Missouri on Thursday, April 28. To RSVP, please see below.

First Things is hosting our Spring 2022 Intellectual Retreat on Freedom in Phoenix. We hope to see you there!

We are pleased to invite you to the 2022 First Things Lecture in Washington, D.C., featuring Josh Mitchell. 

Now in its 34th year, the Erasmus Lecture brings world-renowned speakers to New York—including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Gilbert Meilaender, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—to address an audience of over five hundred people each year. The lecture also appears in the pages of First Things and on FirstThings.com.