Editing First Things (section)

==Contributors==
Contributors usually represent traditional [[Catholic]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Anglican]], [[Protestant]] (especially [[Lutheran]], [[Methodist]], and [[Presbyterian]]), [[Jewish]] and [[Islam]]ic viewpoints.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-01 |title=How Modernity Swallowed Islamism {{!}} Shadi Hamid |url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/10/how-modernity-swallowed-islamism |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=First Things |language=en}}</ref> Frequent contributors in the magazine's first year (1990) included Catholic jurist [[Mary Ann Glendon]] (later [[List of ambassadors of the United States to the Holy See|United States Ambassador to the Holy See]] under [[George W. Bush]]); rabbi [[David Novak]]; Catholic philosopher, diplomat and author [[Michael Novak]]; Lutheran-turned-Catholic historian Robert Louis Wilken; Catholic scholar and papal biographer [[George Weigel]]; and Lutheran ethicist [[Gilbert Meilaender]]. Others appearing included [[Gary Bauer]], [[William Bennett]], [[Peter L. Berger]], [[David Brooks (commentator)|David Brooks]], [[Robertson Davies]], [[Avery Dulles]] (later Catholic [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]]), [[Jean Bethke Elshtain]], [[Robert P. George]], [[Stanley Hauerwas]], [[David Horowitz]], [[Peter Leithart]], [[Martin E. Marty]], [[Ralph McInerny]], [[Mark Noll]], and [[Michael Wyschogrod]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstthings.com/issue_archive.php?offset=4 |title=Issues Archive |work=firstthings.com |access-date=5 September 2016}}</ref>

Frequent contributors in recent years have included some of the aforementioned authors and several members or former members of the IRPL board and the former advisory council, as well as [[Hadley Arkes]], [[Sohrab Ahmari]], [[Mark Bauerlein]], [[Hans Boersma]], [[Randy Boyagoda]], [[Christopher Caldwell (journalist)|Christopher Caldwell]], archbishop [[Charles J. Chaput]], Elizabeth C. Corey, [[Ross Douthat]], [[Mary Eberstadt]], [[Joseph Epstein (writer)|Joseph Epstein]], [[Anthony Esolen]], [[Timothy George]], [[David Bentley Hart]], [[Peter Hitchens]], Sam Kriss, [[Wilfred M. McClay]], Joshua Mitchell, [[Stanley G. Payne]], cardinal [[George Pell]], Nathan Pinkoski, Ephraim Radner, [[Robert Royal (author)|Robert Royal]], Matthew Rose, [[Roger Scruton]], [[Wesley J. Smith]], Patricia Snow, Peter Tonguette, Michael Toscano, and [[Carl Trueman]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstthings.com/issue-archive |title=Issues Archive |work=First Things}}</ref>

''First Things'' has often hosted statements by [[Evangelicals and Catholics Together]], a group of leading scholars in the United States that are either [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] Protestants or Catholics. Beginning in May 2017, [[Shalom Carmy]], an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi teaching Jewish studies and philosophy at [[Yeshiva University]] (where he is Chair of Bible and Jewish philosophy at [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]], also and an affiliated scholar at [[Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law]]), as well as editor of ''[[Tradition (journal)|Tradition]]'', wrote a regular column named "[[Lithuanian Jews|Litvak]] at Large".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/05/benedict-option |title=Benedict Option |last=Reno |date=May 2017 }}</ref> In the August/September 2021 issue, Carmy's column was taken over by [[Liel Leibovitz]], writing under a column named "Leibovitz at Large". Carmy continued to be a frequent contributor of ''First Things''. [[R. R. Reno]] has continued [[Richard John Neuhaus]]'s columns called "The Public Square" and "While We're At It" and each issue of ''First Things'' hosts poetry. The magazine publishes articles every day in the "Web Exclusives" section of its website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstthings.com/feature-archive |title=Web Exclusives |work=First Things}}</ref>