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Dependent Rational Animals offers both a satisfying philosophical exclamation point and a sorely needed ethical and political vision appropriate for the struggles of our own day.

What exactly is health? What do we mean by that word? What is a proper understanding of it?

Politics, at its best, requires those willing to risk greatness.

His hands remind me of a topographical map. Even now with their nail scars, do Jesus’ hands bear also the marks that come with age and years as a craftsman?

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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 ...

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…

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

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