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October 2018

October 23, 2018

Advice for a Single Woman Who Is Looking for a Masculine Man

I have known a number of unhappy single Christian women over the years. Many of...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

How Big Is Too Big?

In the original Twilight Zone there is an episode entitled, The Last Night of a...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Making the Good Life from Home

In my advocacy for recovering the productive household, the first question I'm asked is, "Is...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

How to Be a Gracious Pariah

Most of the time it is impossible to know why someone stops talking to you....

August 2017

August 11, 2017

Why I Don’t Give Advice Anymore

In many ways my life is a rags-to-riches story. I was thinking about this recently...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

How to Make Sure Your Highly Educated Daughter Doesn’t Have to Freeze Her Eggs

You may not like my advice. But if you have better advice, there are a...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

About That Article I Wrote for National Review

I had something of a ride last week following the publication of something I wrote...

April 2017

April 11, 2017

The Way of Men: Nietzsche or Aristotle?

When I was in graduate school (Harvard Divinity School) one of my professors put the...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Freedom: I don’t think it means what you think it means

One of the conceptual blocks I ran into as a young convert was the notion...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Family that Stays Together Can Pray Together

That little reversal in the title of this post is intended to shake you out...

January 24, 2017

I Am Weary of the World-Weariness of the Unaccomplished

The best way to avoid disappointment is to not even try. Life is struggle. Jacob...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

Jack, the Giant, and the Indigestible Bean

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

November 03, 2016

Children and Household Religion

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

November 01, 2016

Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle: What Will Become of Our Work?

Leaf by Niggle is a personal favorite. It's right up there with Smith of Wootton...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Slavery and You: Why You’re Not as Free as You Think

Laws often trail practices, not the other way around. In most slave-keeping societies the law...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Getting Published is Easy, Getting Read Is the Tough Thing

Karl Marx, among the absurd things he said (some things were pretty sound, but I'm...

September 06, 2016

And Now, in Conclusion: How to End a Story

"Have the courage to conclude." (Don't recall where I read that, but it's good advice.)...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

So You Want to Be Famous?

I have a book on the shelf that I really should to return to the...

July 12, 2016

If There Is No God, Then Harrison Bergeron Must Die!

Well, my daughter scored 720 on the math portion of the SAT. Not too shabby...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

I Miss the Religious But Not Spiritual

I assume you've endured, as I have, that self-congratulatory nostrum of the Authentic: "I'm spiritual...

June 08, 2016

Is Blogging Like Ambulance Chasing?

You may not be familiar with the idiom, but an "ambulance chaser" is someone who...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Front Porches: What Makes for a Good One?

Well, I'm heading down to Baltimore for the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Philosophy...

May 23, 2016

Why Beer Commercials Are the Best and What That Says about Creativity

I actually had a Dos Equis for no other reason than The Most Interesting Man...

May 13, 2016

How about a “Bombadil Option”?

“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots...

May 02, 2016

Thinking about Sex

Sexual desire is a swamp. There's no firm ground to stand on in psychology, biochemistry...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

What Inside Out Managed to Leave Out

My latest contribution to my favorite magazine is available online. The magazine is Touchstone, and...

April 19, 2016

Of Long Fingernails, Gnosticism, and the Coming Age of Robots

I recall reading somewhere that oriental potentates grew their fingernails long in order to show...

April 07, 2016

Telling Stories: Why Preachers Should Learn to Write Good Fiction

J. R. R. Tolkien in his famous essay, On Fairy Stories noted that a story...

April 04, 2016

Are You a Bubble-Baby?

Probably the thing that bugs me most about those tender sprouts who have grown up...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Diana Moon Glampers, Sociobiology, and Aristotle

This weekend the Wall Street Journal confirmed what we pretty much know intuitively, stronger-looking men...