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Dear Reader,

You’re hearing from me this morning because there are less than forty-eight hours left in 2023, and your first gift to FIRST THINGS is urgently needed before January 1 at midnight. Give now at firstthings.com/donate.

Your first gift will encourage, inform, and equip religious believers to stand firm in natural and divine truths—the first things—at a dark time for our nation and the church.

And your first gift is needed today, because the ability of FIRST THINGS to provide this support hinges on whether readers like you can give the $57,787 that remains of our $1,000,000 year-end campaign goal.

Reader, it is indeed a dark time, and we must be clear-eyed about this. But you and I both know that dark times are not grounds for despair. We share an eternal perspective that both contextualizes and clarifies the darkness we observe.

It’s a perspective that shines even brighter in dark times, and it’s one that needs to be shared. Will you share it?

Your year-end gift will shine the light of FIRST THINGS even brighter as we enter a pivotal and uncertain new year.

Would you give today?

Reader, I’m writing to you because you read FIRST THINGS but have not yet taken the next step by making a charitable gift. Can I count on you to man the ramparts with FIRST THINGS today by making a year-end donation?

Your first gift could determine whether or not FIRST THINGS achieves its crucial year-end goal!

Yours,

R. R. Reno
Editor

P.S. You and I both know that dark times are not grounds for despair. What’s more, the darkness enables the truth to shine brighter, if we would only share it.

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