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Though we may choose to live out our lives differently upon the land, there remain in both places people who still care for and respect land and community. I have…

“The Good Life, According to Gen Z.” Maya Sulkin talks with several Gen Zers who, in good Porcher fashion, left the big-city corporate rat race to move back home: “In…

We are pilgrims in this world. We must be content to wonder as we wander. Douthat is asking his readers to cast their nets into the deep.

Every year that we farm in the old ways, more of nature returns, despite the mistakes we make. Each return teaches hope.

My miracles are many, too many to count or explain. Maybe yours are too.

To throw pedagogical punches is not to berate students; it’s to engage them in the ring. Most of them just need a nudge, a little jab that’s meant to be…

“How Major League Baseball Lost its Soul.” Bill Kauffman may be biased, but at least he’s honest: “I highly recommend Homestand, Will Bardenwerper’s new book contrasting the community-enhancing qualities of…

A person cannot multitask while performing it; instead, all else disappears, and only the person for whom one is caring in this physical way remains the focus for several minutes

My mom knew that she could not transfer the entire corpus of Western thought to us because she didn’t have it. But she did have love

Classroom culture may develop accidentally, but the truth is that a neutral classroom does not exist. Although her apologia is intended for classical Christian educators, Gerth speaks to all teachers

Over the decades, I suppose I learned a lot from podcasts; plenty of facts and all the “sides” to stories. Very little of those things seem to matter to me…

I’ve heated with wood for a winter, and I am pleased to do so, but it’s backbreaking labor to warm this way for a lifetime

“We are Letting Schools Poison our Children.” Hadley Freeman has some harsh (but accurate) critiques of ed tech: “You don’t need to be Mr Gradgrind to be repulsed by this…

The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town…

Although my vision, and my neck, and my sense of balance, and certainly my sense of hope, were all impaired, I could still prune. And as I pruned, I reflected…

Those who had previously greeted me with smiles and handshakes find ways to hint through word and deed that I am no longer one of them ...

As I picked up litter, I had ample time to reflect upon the stunning parallels between human pollution and sin.

“The Intellectual Virtues of the Small Magazine.” Jeff Reimer brilliantly narrates the joys of an intellectual life and the role that small magazines can play in foster this: ‘Now remember…

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love

Join Ben Christenson and others for a discussion with Clare Morell.

We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually

The lessons of murmuration are clear. There is power and safety in community

Jess never missed calling me today, even when I was half a world away. This marks the eleventh year that my phone will not ring.

Laurie Johnson is teaching an introduction to Aristotle's virtue ethics for the Maurin Academy this summer. The schedule and details are here: We need a solid understanding of ethics now…