Dear Reader,

I hope you’ll join us for our first-ever FIRST THINGS regional reader summit, which will be hosted at Belmont Abbey College on October 14-15. Our topic? “Friendship in an Age of Polarization.”
 
No, you will not learn how to win friends and influence people.
 
Instead, you will reflect on and discuss some of history’s most influential writing on friendship—from Aristotle and Cicero to Flannery O’Connor and C.S. Lewis—in small seminar groups led by instructors from Belmont Abbey College. What’s more, you’ll hear from FIRST THINGS editor R. R. Reno and have a chance to meet fellow readers of FIRST THINGS, all free of charge.
 
To reserve your spot, please click here or on the button below:
 

See you in Charlotte!

Carter Skeel
Director of Development