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Time To Tell The Truth

How much longer will we prioritize a Wild West notion of freedom over protecting children and teens? The truth is, like cigarettes and alcohol, these devices are incompatible with healthy…

It Ain’t Funny: Or, Why We Don’t Laugh Together

The laughter of a faithless culture is bitter, derisive. It no longer springs from a merry heart but from dry bones. A culture of faith is a culture that can…

Heroic Romanticism

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion

The Ghost Cricket Orchestra

If we are willing to listen, we might be able to learn what we are listening for. Not just a deeper connection to our humanity, or a meditative appreciation of…

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

The one observation on which all the Brothers focused with most interest, though, was what I might describe as the words beyond words. These poems are not just about a…
April 29, 2025

Garden With Children

I am happy that the boys enjoy the garden too. But who knows how it will be in five years?

Crisis Response and the Remembering of Nightlife Hample

A peaceful crisis response paves the way for restoration and wholeness.
April 19, 2025

Sowing Winter Wheal: Preparing Seed and Soil for the New Era

As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.
April 14, 2025

Rooting for Front Porch Journalism

This year the big boys dominated.
April 10, 2025

In Praise of Old Fencerows

Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible

Andrew Tate and the Right we Need

Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.
April 8, 2025

Lectors at the Lectern

I moved on, but I realized in that moment that I hadn’t adequately answered the student’s question

The Black Intellectual Tradition: A Review

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

Contemplation in Action: Booth Tarkington and the Art of Business

Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove.

In Praise of “Old”

Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.

Cleaning an Empty Home

There is not a lot of time for sentimentality when you’re in the final week of madly preparing to list your empty, but very much “lived-in,” house

Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
March 19, 2025

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.

Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored World

There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.

Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go

After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden

Localism, Immigration, and the Ordo Amoris

Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story
March 12, 2025

The Cruel Reality Behind Guest Worker Visas

The only way for countries committed to The Machine to stop migration will be an expansion of the cruel forces
March 11, 2025