Ha! This is actually a solicitation from the interfaith magazine First Things (proud to say Farandaville – a charter subscriber) asking for a donation. But I liked the comments by the person promoting it – they are below the link.<\/p>\n
When I was in seventh grade, a girl at my New York private school told our history class that she believed Christianity was fundamentally anti-intellectual: No thinking person could possibly believe in God, let alone in resurrection. The other girls nodded in agreement. I scoffed.<\/a><\/p>\n I had, you see, grown up with theologian Robert Jenson<\/a> for a grandfather and Richard Neuhaus for a godfather. First Things<\/span> really was my first thing. The deepest thinkers I knew were Christian, and the most intellectual conversations I had been privy to were around Christian dinner tables\u2014Godfather Richard\u2019s, especially<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, my classmate was not simply voicing the ignorant musings of a thirteen-year-old; she was repeating a common article of faith among our so-called intellectual elite. And as I have moved through the world of this elite, I have taken great joy in emulating my grandfather and godfather, exposing through argument and by example the unseriousness of elite irreligion.<\/p>\n For those of us engaged in this mission, First Things<\/span> is an indispensable resource, with its unimpeachably serious and thoughtful writing. Armed with First Things<\/span>, I have, I\u2019m proud to say, helped convert a number of intellectuals in my life (starting with my husband<\/a>!). Please join me in supporting this important magazine and its bid to change not only people\u2019s minds but also their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ha! This is actually a solicitation from the interfaith magazine First Things (proud to say Farandaville – a charter subscriber) asking for a donation. But I liked the comments by the person promoting it – they are below the link. When I was in seventh grade, a girl at my New York private school told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}