First Things RSS Feed - Jeremy Beer https://www.firstthings.com/author/jeremy-beer en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:03 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/jeremy-beer 60 America’s Greatest Explorer https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/03/americas-greatest-explorer https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/03/americas-greatest-explorer Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House wondering what would befall them for having dared to rebel against their king, a lone, hungry Spanish priest lay in the windswept stone plaza of a Hopi village wondering what would befall him for having dared to serve his own.

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]]> Salute to a Country Songwriter https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/08/salute-to-a-country-songwriter https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/08/salute-to-a-country-songwriter Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0400 One morning, when I was six or seven years old, my mother told me that she would be substituting for my regular teacher at school that day. My heart sank. Mom was alright, but I sure didn’t want her hanging around my school! 

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]]> Redeeming Places https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/06/redeeming-places https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/06/redeeming-places Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Where Mortals Dwell:
A Christian View of Place for Today
by craig g. bartholomew
baker, 384 pages, $29.99

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