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Introducing Things that Matter: A Guide to the Christian Faith. "Today many of us find ourselves discouraged, frustrated, and...

Wilfred McClay on the Baptism of the Imagination. We are pleased to announce the annual Center for Christian Studies – First Things...

The third-century church father, Origen, in response to the pagan criticism that Christians don’t do enough to help the emperor, claimed that, on the contrary, Christians do more good for their respective countries than do the rest of mankind.  Because of the prayers that they offer and the lives that they live, Christians “render to the emperors divine help….  Indeed, the more pious a man is, the more effective he is in helping the emperors—more so than the soldiers who go o