First Things RSS Feed - Joyce A. Little https://www.firstthings.com/author/joyce-a-little en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:25 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/joyce-a-little 60 Naming Good and Evil https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/05/naming-good-and-evil https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/05/naming-good-and-evil Fri, 01 May 1992 00:00:00 -0400 Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What's Wrong With the World?   His answer to that question was that, while there is general agreement as to what is wrong with the world, the real problem is that we cannot agree on what would be right. This absence of public consensus on what is good and right in life led him to remark in another work.  The Man Who Was Orthodox , that “humanity has passed through every sort of storm and shipwreck but never before was it so doubtful which was the storm and which was the shipwreck, and which the ship and which the ship’s crew; and what we are rescuing from what.”

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