Archive
More than thirty-five years of First Things articles at your fingertips
Articles
A Prayer for Russia
Our Father All-Merciful! Don’t abandon your own long-suffering Russia In her present daze, In her woundedness, Impoverishment, And confusion of spirit. Lord Omnipotent! Don’t let, don’t let her be...
Miniatures, 1996-99
In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over from before the Revolution, it might have also been fortified by the...
