A Cornucopia of Life

by Elizabeth Bachmann

A culture of life, therefore, means not just preserving physical life, but developing rich spiritual, intellectual, and emotional lives.  Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2022

Encanto and the Benedict Option

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Any community of refuge, especially a Benedict Option community, must find a way for its members to support one another in moving from fear to courage, scarcity to charity, walls to windows. Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2022

One-Man Revolution

by Jacquelyn Lee

In 1932, while covering a worker’s strike in Washington, D.C., Dorothy Day said a prayer. Since her conversion to Catholicism, she felt that she could no longer join such strikes. Joining a strike was an expression of ­solidarity—and fundamental philosophical differences prevented true . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

Breakfast at Kim's

by Elizabeth C. Corey

If you arrive at Kim’s Diner before noon, your best option for breakfast is either the homemade biscuits with Texas-style white gravy or the pancakes-and-sausage plate. Lunch and dinner offerings are good, basic American food: grilled burgers and sandwiches half-wrapped in butcher paper so they . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2021

Discernment in Plague-Times

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

If we struggle to serve God in small things, he may be generous enough to invite us into his service in dramatic ways. Continue Reading »

26 Mar 2020

Notes From a Nonconformist

by Peter Hitchens

I achieved herd immunity many years ago. Continue Reading »

19 Mar 2020

The Miracle of “We”

by R. R. Reno

Human beings are by nature social animals. But the particularity of the “we” is always a gift. Continue Reading »

28 Oct 2019

Fear and the Benedict Option

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

In order to pray for the people the Devil wants us to see as enemies, we need to see them as people. Continue Reading »

8 May 2019

Bread Eternal

by Jane Sloan Peters

In the ruins of Ostia Antica, where Roman roads have disintegrated into a tangle of worn stones and earth, past market stalls where tall grasses jut from meticulously laid mosaic floors, one can find about three dozen stone basins in which bakers once placed bread dough to rise. This is one of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2019

Your First Things Community

by Ramona Tausz

In the midst of our atomized world, First Things offers a community—a place where you will find others eager to join you in opposing the chaos of contemporary life.  Continue Reading »

21 Dec 2017