May 5, 2025I’ve heated with wood for a winter, and I am pleased to do so, but it’s backbreaking labor to warm…
May 3, 2025“We are Letting Schools Poison our Children.” Hadley Freeman has some harsh (but accurate) critiques of ed tech: “You don’t…- May 3, 2025The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and…
May 2, 2025Although my vision, and my neck, and my sense of balance, and certainly my sense of hope, were all impaired,…
May 1, 2025If we are willing to listen, we might be able to learn what we are listening for. Not just a…
April 30, 2025Those who had previously greeted me with smiles and handshakes find ways to hint through word and deed that I…
April 29, 2025The one observation on which all the Brothers focused with most interest, though, was what I might describe as the…
April 28, 2025As I picked up litter, I had ample time to reflect upon the stunning parallels between human pollution and sin.- April 26, 2025“The Intellectual Virtues of the Small Magazine.” Jeff Reimer brilliantly narrates the joys of an intellectual life and the role…
April 26, 2025But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated…
April 25, 2025We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually
