First Things RSS Feed - Jake Meador https://www.firstthings.com/author/jake-meador en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:20 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/jake-meador 60 Political Religion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/01/political-religion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/01/political-religion Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 Bonhoeffer’s America: 
 A Land Without Reformation
by joel looper
 baylor university, 272 pages, $54.99

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]]> Why Rise of Skywalker Fails https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/why-rise-of-skywalker-fails https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/why-rise-of-skywalker-fails Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Amongst Dickens’s many perfectly named characters, Thomas Gradgrind may be one of the most horrifying. Gradgrind, a villain in the novel  Hard Times , is the quintessential modern education reformer, a utilitarian teacher whose sole concern is facts and figures. And in his world, “facts” are purely material. For Gradgrind, the educated mind is the mind that cuts through emotion and subjective opinion to the “objective” heart of things.

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]]> Chick-fil-A Chickens Out https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/11/chick-fil-a-chickens-out https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/11/chick-fil-a-chickens-out Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:05:00 -0500 For years, Chick-fil-A has been a useful case study for fusionists and libertarian-minded social conservatives. The company has coexisted with woke businesses while normalizing Christian values, honoring the Sabbath, and treating customers kindly—and it has done so purely on the strength of its product. It makes a great chicken sandwich. It has friendly employees, clean dining rooms, and play areas for kids. As a result, it is now the third-largest fast food chain in America. 

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]]> The Nashville Statement and the PCA https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/07/the-nashville-statement-and-the-pca https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/07/the-nashville-statement-and-the-pca Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:20:00 -0400 At a time when many Protestant denominations are concentrated in specific regions, the Presbyterian Church in America is one of the few truly national denominations.

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]]> Why We Need Loome Theological Booksellers https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/07/why-we-need-loome-theological-booksellers https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/07/why-we-need-loome-theological-booksellers Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:00:00 -0400 It’s not typical to stumble into a small-town bookstore and be greeted by the sounds of Gregorian chant and a bookshelf featuring the works of Emil Brunner, Pope St. John Paul II, Etienne Gilson, Ernst Troeltsch, Josef Pieper, Benedict XVI, and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.

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]]> Evangelical Liturgy, High and Low https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/11/evangelical-liturgy-high-and-low https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/11/evangelical-liturgy-high-and-low Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500 Evangelical versus Liturgical?: Defying a Dichotomy
melanie ross
eerdmans, 165 pages, $17

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]]> Reading Wendell Berry on Marriage https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/wendell-berrys-changed-mind-on-marriage https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/wendell-berrys-changed-mind-on-marriage Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:42:10 -0500

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