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‘As an Emerald Is Green’ “God loves, not as I love, but as an emerald is green. And I too, if I were in a state of perfection, would love as an emerald is green. I would be an impersonal person.” —Simone Weil There is something immediately attractive about the French mystic Simone Weil’s plea in her notebooks that she might learn to love “as an emerald is green”: to achieve a love that is as steady, unconscious, and enduring as a color. The green profusion of nature is both unwavering and imp...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, begins with the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). Babel represents the grandiosity of. The post A Boomer, But An Augustinian: On Magnifica Humanitas appeared first on First Things
Military wives constitute less than 1 percent of the American population, and they make up between 15 and 20 percent of the women paid to gestate other people’s children. The post How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families appeared first on First Things
Until recently, Poland’s definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman seemed inviolable, for at least two reasons. First, Article 18 of the Polish Constitution. The post Same-Sex Marriage and the Degradation of European Law appeared first on First Things
Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners
The article explores the passionate culture of fandom surrounding the New York Knicks, highlighting how it shapes the team's identity and influences their matchup against the San Antonio Spurs.
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