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The Chicago Manual of Style is not to blame for any of these trends. The editors’ decision does not shape as much as reflect our culture.

—it took 40 years for me to begin to realize these words Jim silently put into my hands on that last day of class were a prayer.

If you understand that a child’s growth comes from a spark within, just as does the growth of a flower, a crystal, or a mighty oak, you might take a…

There ought not be unnecessary opposition between Indigenous and Christian perspectives. The creative work of caring for our ecology is hard enough; let us not also misunderstand one another.

AI promises free cheese, but there is no such thing as a free lunch. Although we often boast about AI’s ability to create, we should instead focus the conversation on…

Rational ideas create hell on earth. Just ask a kulak. Or just ask the lettuce plants in my garden.

In his brief and not altogether satisfying rejoinder to the question, “why write?” Berry says, “To serve that triumph I have done all the rest,” and he ends the poem…

Let’s point to the wiser and the well off and ask people if they want what those people have–often they do. Many times, those people have a love for the…

Reading for the shape of a life can be medicinal, especially when we allow that life to diagnose and heal ourselves. And maybe then that understanding can encourage doctors of…

I must say that I did not want to write this review. I walked into the theatre with high hopes for Mr. Garland’s Civil War. I was hoping it would…

I do not know where the future will take us. I’m not going to try and escape the risks in modern society, but I’m also not going to ignore them.…

To fight a culture war justly is to be confident that your arguments have a reasonable chance of success; but this means that to fight justly is not only about…

If we fail to recognize friendship for what it is, and for the role it plays in the maturation process of children and young adults, we lose out on a…

If I am therefore departing one field in which I hoped to do some good work in place, I hope to deepen my practice as an English professor who lives…

In a world in which there are so many problems to solve, solitude plays an important role in helping us remember that life consists of more than finding and righting…

Students sometimes come to us in crisis, but always they come from a world filled with challenges and are with us only for a season. We could do far worse…

Preserving moral authority in schools would truly be something to cheer about.

If boarding school stories are exceptionally good at communicating certain universal themes despite the privileged setting, the lasting appeal of the setting offers some lessons, as well. The older we…

The unspent beauty of nature that Hopkins saw has much to teach us even if we’re not always paying attention. But paying attention is always better.

In this piece, I turn from the abstract idea of the marriage between the outer world of work and the inner world of the spirit to centers of education that…

What struck me most in reading the book was the role of risk-taking and personal leadership in an organization’s founding phase, and the necessity of consolidating and institutionalizing its vision,…

Why does my third child, my little son whom I mention above, need me to be in physical contact with him while he reads? Because it helps him feel warm…

The children’s pastor made his point about who was serious or not when it came to serving God. He could have closed the service, and I would have been out…

None of us gets to choose where we land. But if we cannot choose the times in which we live, we can choose how we live in the time we…