First Things RSS Feed - Sarah Klitenic Wear https://www.firstthings.com/author/sarah-klitenic-wear en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:46 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/sarah-klitenic-wear 60 Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38 https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/12/wishing-for-gods-plan-marys-fiat-in-luke-138 https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/12/wishing-for-gods-plan-marys-fiat-in-luke-138 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500 In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation , where a rainbow-winged Gabriel salutes Mary, blue-draped, arms open in prayer. Gabriel proclaims, Ave gratia plena , to which Mary responds, ecce ancilla domini . Her words are written in reverse because they are directed neither to the angel nor to the viewer, but to God. Van Eyck’s painting portrays the scene in Luke 1:38:

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]]> A Wilder Feminism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/a-wilder-feminism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/a-wilder-feminism Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
by laura ingalls wilder
edited by pamela smith hill
south dakota historical society, 472 pages, $39.95

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]]> The Ancients on Abortion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/04/the-ancients-on-abortion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/04/the-ancients-on-abortion Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0400 Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy last semester, I hoped to cruise through the Purgatorio to make sure we completed the Paradiso by semester’s end. But my students wouldn’t let me skip canto 25—they stopped there, awestruck. I think we spent longer in the seventh cornice on the mount of purgatory than Dante did.

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]]> Diapers and Diplomas https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/diapers-and-diplomas https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/diapers-and-diplomas Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500 When colleagues at academic conferences marvel at the latest of my seven pregnancies, my immediate reaction—so they don’t think I am the world’s worst professor and colleague—is to tell them that I have never, ever taken standard maternity leave. With my last two pregnancies, I modified maternity leave, opting instead for a reduced course schedule. At my university, that means coming back from the hospital to teaching two courses instead of four, days after giving birth.

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