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Dear Reader,

I’m pleased to announce that three generous donors have set up a $60,000 matching gift challenge for today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. For these three days, your gift to FIRST THINGS will be matched in full for double the impact.

Will you help FIRST THINGS unlock the full matching gift by giving today?

Give before December 20 at midnight to double your impact on the work of FIRST THINGS!

I’m quite fond of the matching gift concept. Consider Jesus’s parable of the talents.

His audience would have marveled at the extraordinary sum the master entrusts to his servants. Some scholars believe that a single talent represented twenty years’ worth of wages. Five—let alone ten!—and you might be set for life.

Given this context, you might find it hard to judge the servant who merely safeguarded his single talent. Yet upon his return, the master issues a stinging rebuke and a severe punishment.

These three donors have entrusted FIRST THINGS with an extraordinary sum, exhorting us to bring together one hundred readers to match it in full.

Your special first gift is needed to ensure that FIRST THINGS is a good steward of their generosity.

Elsewhere, Jesus teaches that he who is faithful in little is faithful in much. Your special gift of any size will help FIRST THINGS steward this matching gift well!

With your contribution matched in full, there’s no better time to make your first charitable gift to FIRST THINGS. It would be an honor to welcome you into our community of charitable supporters.

Make your first gift securely by clicking here!

Yours,

R. R. Reno
Editor

P. S. These donors assure me that no rebuke or punishment is forthcoming, but your year-end gift will only be matched today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.

Click here to make your first gift to FIRST THINGS now—matched 1:1 for double the impact! >>