God never gives us more than we can take,”the midwife told us, after catching two—two—heartbeats in your sonogram. She knewthe kids we had at home and hoped to breakthe... The…
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First Things ↗The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope, and it is hard to imagine any scholar, however learned, who would not…
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First Things ↗Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just... The…
First Things ↗Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party, feeling sorry for herself. She doesn’t know anybody, the friends she arrived... The…
First Things ↗The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does many readers. Don Jr. and Eric Trump are the Uday and Qusay... The…
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First Things ↗I am a native New Yorker. So, even though I live in DC, New York (Brooklyn in particular) still has my heart. My sports allegiances are directly tied to this…
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