Dear Reader,

The year is 2013.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected pope. Donald Trump’s day job is producing The Apprentice. Gay marriage is not the law of the land. A lot can change in a decade!

One thing hasn’t: the FIRST THINGS website. In digital years, that’s an eternity.

Your gift can change that. To initiate our website redesign, FIRST THINGS needs readers like you to give $68,400 (60 percent of the project’s total cost) by April 1.

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You don’t need me to tell you that the stakes are high in 2024. FIRST THINGS was founded to speak clearly and forcefully in moments exactly like these.

You read FIRST THINGS to speak clearly and forcefully in moments like these.

And it is your readership and support that enable FIRST THINGS to defend faith and the natural order doggedly.

FIRST THINGS speaks these truths in love—without rancor . . . but also without equivocation. This is not a time to hide our light under a bushel.

Your gift to the FIRST THINGS in support of our site redesign will shine that light even farther, so that many more people are nourished by the thoughtful and religiously grounded commentary we publish here.

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With gratitude,

Carter Skeel

Director of Institutional Advancement