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“Unlike idols, Yahweh demolishes ‘former things’ so he can give birth to ‘new things,’ and his labor repeats the first f...
07/18/2026

“Unlike idols, Yahweh demolishes ‘former things’ so he can give birth to ‘new things,’ and his labor repeats the first fiat of creation, shining light from darkness (Isa. 42:16). He births new things by his breath and voice, as the Spirit and Word once formed the shapeless emptiness into the ordered cosmos. The Creator’s labor is labor, and, because we’re made in his image and likeness, so is ours.”

All Labor Is Labor
Peter J. Leithart

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“The Talmud survives because it never mistook neatness for truth, or closure for wisdom. So long as Jews continued to di...
07/17/2026

“The Talmud survives because it never mistook neatness for truth, or closure for wisdom. So long as Jews continued to dispute, annotate, question, reconcile, resist, and repudiate, the book had not failed in its purpose. It had fulfilled it.”

In the latest issue of The Jew from Nowhere, First Things’ newsletter on Jewish thought and culture, J. J. Kimche writes on the Talmud, Maimonides, and rabbinic tradition

The Book That Would Not Be Closed
J. J. Kimche

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“Benedict believed he was living in the end times. This claim shocks us, because Benedict chose not to speak openly on t...
07/16/2026

“Benedict believed he was living in the end times. This claim shocks us, because Benedict chose not to speak openly on this topic until the final years of his life, at which point he had resigned the papacy, his allies had been purged from Vatican leadership, and almost nobody was listening.”

The Pope and the Antichrist
Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe

Read the full essay from our August/September Magazine issue at https://firstthings.com/the-pope-and-the-antichrist/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=Magazine&utm_term=Antichrist

In the latest issue of The Protestant Mind, First Things’ newsletter on Protestant thought and culture, Dale M. Coulter ...
07/16/2026

In the latest issue of The Protestant Mind, First Things’ newsletter on Protestant thought and culture, Dale M. Coulter writes on Asbury Seminary, the United Methodist Church, and the changing landscape of Protestantism.

“The University Senate’s decision to remove Asbury from the list of approved UMC seminaries reveals the ongoing division of Protestantism into liberal and conservative traditions. The older division between mainline and evangelical does not capture what’s happening. The UMC’s rejection of Asbury has nothing to do with Methodism and everything to do with the denomination’s more fulsome embrace of liberal Protestantism.”

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“Soccer seems not to understand that God gave us opposable thumbs for a reason. Opposable thumbs allow us to throw, catc...
07/15/2026

“Soccer seems not to understand that God gave us opposable thumbs for a reason. Opposable thumbs allow us to throw, catch, and hold a bat or hockey stick. These abilities are not accidental. They are woven into the fabric of creation, which the Creator knew to be good (cf. Gen. 1:25, 31). To treat the abilities that opposable thumbs make possible as if they were somehow nefarious is to reject a gift of God.”

World Cup Blues, of a Sort
George Weigel

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“Full membership in American civic life does not require the erasure of difference. It requires the confidence to enter ...
07/15/2026

“Full membership in American civic life does not require the erasure of difference. It requires the confidence to enter the room as oneself, to recognize that the Baptist, the Catholic, and the Orthodox Jew can argue together about the good without ceasing to be who they are. That argument, conducted by religiously serious people, is the American experiment at its best, and it is what First Things has been hosting since its founding.”

A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square
by Sarah Berk

Read the full piece at https://firstthings.com/a-jewish-case-against-the-naked-public-square/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=Dailypiece&utm_term=Jewish

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