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Source: First Things The remarkable First Things video that thousands of First Things subscribers have already purchased for friends, family, and themselves is now available in digital MP4 format. Tim Kelleher’s The Creed examines why the radical claims made in the Nicene Creed are so important to all of us. Thoughtful and beautifully produced, The Creed features appearances by scholars and thinkers Frederica Mathewes-Green, Dr. Robert Louis Wilken, Very Rev. John Behr, Timothy P. Shriver, Rev. Volodymyr Sybirny, Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson, Very Rev. John Bakas, and Dr. Stephen Barr. Watching The Creed has never been easier! Click here to purchase and download your MP4 video file of The Creed today! Click here

Source: First Things by Mark Movsesian This past weekend, the United States began to intervene in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northern Iraq. The Islamist group ISIS has made a lightning conquest of much of the region, persecuting religious minorities, and even some Sunni Muslims, everywhere it goes. In response, the U.S. has begun air drops of food and water to up to 40,000 Yazidi refugees stranded on Mt. Sinjar, where ISIS militants have them surrounded. And the U.S. undertook airstrikes against ISIS positions threatening the Kurdish city of Erbil, where hundreds of American advisers are stationed. Other Western nations…