Dear Reader,

It’s time. Past time, really. FIRST THINGS needs a new website. As a reader of FIRST THINGS, you deserve a new website.

I’m writing to you today to deliver the good news: It’s coming. FIRST THINGS is ready to initiate a full website redesign on April 1 for a launch in early summer.

But it will only launch with the support of readers like you. To initiate the redesign, FIRST THINGS must have at least $68,400 (60 percent of the total cost) in gifts and pledges toward the project in hand before April 1.

Will you make the new firstthings.com a reality by giving today?

FIRST THINGS needs a first-in-class website that befits our first-in-class publication. And readers like you deserve a fast, seamless user experience on a site you want to keep coming back to.

Consider what’s at stake this year. A contentious election looms. The Church approaches a period of uncertainty. College campuses and city centers thunder with calls for the murder of Jews.

In this pivotal moment, more people need to be reading FIRST THINGS: to think clearly, act courageously, and most of all to be rooted once again in the first things.

Your gift will put FIRST THINGS in front of hundreds of thousands of new readers through the fast and accessible new firstthings.com.

It’s a pivotal moment for our nation and the Church. America needs FIRST THINGS.

Can FIRST THINGS count on you?

Yours,

R. R. Reno
Editor