I Don’t Care About Bathrooms. I Care About My Child Being The Target Of...
I have had little concern for who goes to which restroom, and from what I have read most of the public had also been quite indifferent—at least, until bureaucracies began meddling. Each community and...
View ArticleThanks, ‘Ghostbusters,’ For A Movie Men With Daughters Want To See
After drawing the short straw, early one Saturday I was up tending to our youngest daughter. First stop the kitchen, where I started the coffee pot and mixed a bottle. I plucked the little one from her...
View ArticleBurkini Battle Shows Why Progressive Secularism Is So Darned Boring
Sometimes two events will unfold concurrently to shed some light on the state of conflicting worldviews. In this case these events took place in Iraq and France. One story finds a group of first...
View ArticleTo Resurrect ‘The Idea Of A Christian Society’ Christians Need To Get Courageous
We are experiencing a new kind of class warfare, and the Christian voice in the public square is needed now more than ever, says R.R. Reno in Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. In the book...
View ArticleWhen Johnny Cash Was Weakest, He Was Also His Strongest
In “Crime and Punishment,” Fyodor Dostoevsky—a man who would have recoiled in horror at the therapeutic overtones much of American Christianity adopted—wrote, “The really great men must, I think, have...
View ArticleHow The Dance Between Order And Beauty Can Transform Your Life Forever
Christianity is a revolutionary religion. It makes great demands of its followers to change how we interact with our world. Many of its precepts work against our natural assumptions. While most of the...
View ArticleToday’s Futurists Resort To Ancient Paganism To Explain Away Christianity
We live in one of the best times ever to be a religious believer. This was not supposed to be the case. The Enlightenment popularized the idea that religious belief would be replaced with some form of...
View ArticleNeo-Nazis And Antifa Epitomize The Greek Titan Prometheus, And Won’t Like Why
Recent political movements in America have taken on a Promethean character. Prometheus, the reader will recall (if literate in Greek Mythology), is the Titan who stole fire from the gods to give to...
View ArticleWesterners Who Hate On Christianity Have No Idea How It Shapes Their Thoughts
It has been almost 70 years since Hank Williams recorded one of his most well-known songs, “Lost Highway.” Thus it has been nearly 70 years since the term “rolling stone” has infiltrated the American...
View ArticleWhy You Need To Hear The Hillbilly Thomists’ Debut Album
In his essay, “Lewis’s Philosophy of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty,” the Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote, “Truth is good and beautiful; goodness is true and beautiful; beauty is true and good....
View ArticleTo Get Back Its Groove, Country Music Should Riff On The Brothers Osborne
It has often been said Nashville is where good music goes to die. At least it has often been said, by me, to anyone who will listen. As far as I can recall, the scene has been running on fumes since...
View ArticleYes, More Americans Are Lonely, But That Doesn’t Mean People Shouldn’t Bowl...
About three times yearly, I find a monastery or national park to visit alone for a few days and, as they say, recharge my batteries. After nearly ten years of marriage my wife and I have learned our...
View ArticleJohn Prine Evokes Nietzsche In New Album Lamenting Our Techno-Disaster
Friedrich Nietzsche was profoundly influenced by Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking work, “On The Origin of Species. The radical synthesis of scientific literature, which had levied a heavy blow on the...
View ArticleHere’s Why Skilled Blue-Collar Work Is So Darned Fulfilling
The whole industry is powered by problems in need of solutions, and no two issues a worker encounters are the same.
View ArticleLearning How To Make The ‘Benedict Option’ A Reality
Leah Libresco’s new book, 'Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name,' offers lots of practical advice for how you can build and strengthen your Christian...
View ArticleI Don’t Care About Bathrooms. I Care About My Child Being The Target Of...
While bathrooms seem fairly innocuous, schools cannot be forced to open them up to sex-confused children without also spoon-feeding gender theory to psychologically healthy kids.
View ArticleThanks, ‘Ghostbusters,’ For A Movie Men With Daughters Want To See
Is it too much to ask that we skip the latest Disney princess for someone in a mask or jump suit? Inquiring fathers want to know.
View ArticleBurkini Battle Shows Why Progressive Secularism Is So Darned Boring
As secularism seeks to establish a material utopia by purging religion, it inadvertently deprives its citizens of a necessary dimension of true happiness, as the Burkini battle in France shows.
View ArticleTo Resurrect ‘The Idea Of A Christian Society’ Christians Need To Get Courageous
In 'Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society,' R.R. Reno makes an impassioned case that the fate of the least among us depends on Christians who are willing standing up for their beliefs.
View ArticleWhen Johnny Cash Was Weakest, He Was Also His Strongest
Although 20 years have come and gone, Johnny Cash’s final albums still offer the listener a vision into what it means to live a life of faith.
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