R. R. Reno

It’s tempting to recoil from the present uncertainty and see in it only dark possibilities. But we must not underestimate God’s providence. Continue Reading »

We don’t just critique, inform, and educate. First Things aims to nourish. Continue Reading »

The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County gives the LGBT movement a powerful bulldozer with which to demolish all public expressions of dissent from its agenda.  Continue Reading »

I regret my foolish and ill-considered remarks about masks and mask wearing on Twitter on Tuesday, May 12. Continue Reading »

A society that condemns the sick to die alone needs to reexamine its basic principles. Continue Reading »

At the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan hero and his warriors to the mouth of the Tiber, where they put ashore. An oracle has foretold their coming. Aeneas is welcomed by the king of the Latins, and an alliance is forged. The king’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society. Continue Reading »

Peter Baldacchino, bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, became the first American bishop to lift a ban on public attendance at Mass. Continue Reading »

Friday, March 20. A light fog hangs in the air in the early morning as I walk uptown to see what’s going on at the big hospitals a few blocks north of my neighborhood. The magnolias, crabapple trees, and forsythias are in splendid bloom on the spacious grounds of Rockefeller University, next to . . . . Continue Reading »

God’s deliverance of his people from the dominion of Pharaoh is a raising of Israel from the dead. Continue Reading »