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June 2018

June 18, 2018

To Uphold The Law Is Mercy

My wife and I sometimes settle in to watch a little television. This often involves...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

The Lovers that Dare Not Speak Their Names

There is only so much to spread around. Take attention, for example. In spite of...

January 24, 2018

The Future Will be Even Lonelier

The modern way of living extracts payment for all its wonders in the form of...

January 18, 2018

A Different Life Is Possible

We take so much for granted. We assume the way things are is the best...

January 11, 2018

Legal Weed is Dumb Indeed

The other day Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a lot of people's hopes for quickly...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

How Spring Break Destroyed America

Sometime in the 1990’s when other college kids were off on Spring Break, I was...

April 11, 2017

About that Man Dragged Off the Plane

So, a man got kicked off an airplane and the incident sparked an uproar. Let's...

April 07, 2017

Traditionalists Must Oppose Military Action

Traditionalists and modernists differ in that traditionalists don’t believe the world can be perfected. We...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

We Are Mostly Blind to the Suffering of the World

My wife’s phone rang a couple of times last night. First, it was the pastor...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

American Culture is an Anti-Culture

As a child in Sunday school, I learned a song that went: “Be careful, little...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

The Stories a Desperate People Tell

One reason they call it popular culture is that its popular, really, really popular. The...

October 25, 2016

Things Are Just As Fragile As You Fear

For the least several years, I have taken the time to binge watch each season...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

This Culture Makes Family Almost Impossible

Over at Boundless, a web site for Christian 20-somethings, Wendy Alsup writes about the problem...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

Nice Guys, Bad Girls and God: Some Thoughts on a Post by Mark Braivo

Women sometimes do terrible things, and Mark Braivo recently posted a story of one such...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Wisdom Requires Embracing The Real

THE MODERN BLINDNESS People in our day assume we are different from all those who...

June 01, 2016

The Shooting of Harambe the Gorilla is Part of a Larger Problem

Let me offer you this one question quiz to help you determine whether you are...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Protecting Kids from the Culture: How Much Benedict Option is Enough?

Things are not going well. More than a few us are, to put it mildly,...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

The Home and Work at War: Some Musings

My brother and I didn’t know how good we had it. Our mother stayed home...

November 14, 2015

At Home in a World of Terror: First Thoughts on the Paris Attacks

While innocents were being slaughtered in Paris, my wife and I were preparing for a...

November 11, 2015

Reflections on a Ballroom Floor: What I Learned from Dance Class

Slow. Slow. Quick-quick. This formulation sticks in my head more than anything I’ve learned in...

November 02, 2015

Should Wives Work Outside the Home?

The question of whether women should work outside the home confuses a lot of people....

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Lessons from The Twilight Zone

There’s creepy, and then there’s truly scary. The Twilight Zone, at its best, perfected the...

October 2014

October 07, 2014

You Are Not Crazy for Wanting a Different Life

I’m sure you’ve got your problems. Maybe you’re insecure. Maybe you’re selfish. Maybe you’re irresponsible....

September 2014

September 01, 2014

How the Loss of Organized Labor Made Small-Town Life Impossible

I’m working today. You probably are too. Years ago, when I was a kid, we...