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Conservatives must decide if they wish to defend the family and marriage, or hotness and cheap sex.

A truly great mind understands the importance of healthy debate for exposing weaknesses in his own thought and correcting imbalances.

Maybe more of us need to work at strengthening that first community, teaching our children how to live in charity with each other if we are to begin rebuilding the bonds of community in our society.

If you’re looking for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” shrink the political arena to its proper intended size, and then, taking common sense as your guide rather than some hide bound ideology, turn away and strike out into the broader world of life.

“War of the Worlds” can’t shake its earlier glorification of the surveillance state.

If we want to see a return of quality, lasting products, we must first begin recultivating the concept of craftsmanship.

We have to train ourselves to accept the empty spaces because waiting is always uncomfortable.

Through The Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal, 1819 News will daily publish culture and life articles that seek to ground our readers in the truths and traditions of the West’s Christian heritage while illuminating better paths forward for individuals, families, leaders, and our state.

As is the case with family members, we generally don’t get to pick our neighbors, some of whom may be disagreeable. But there may come a day when we need even their help.    

Those who defend divorce have long insisted that it doesn't really harm kids. New research blows that theory to pieces.

Us average folks may not contribute that flash-bang experience to life on this earth, yet the epitaph we leave behind can be far more lasting than that of the hottest actress or the most prominent politician.

You should at least know the joys and pleasures you’re missing as well as the burdens, responsibilities, and yes, sorrows of parenthood.

What “Fantastic Four: First Steps” presents is an incomplete account of the true story.

Our culture does not have a good way to balance labor and leisure. For us, “leisure” often looks like laziness.

Most people don’t fear children; instead, they fear the loneliness that will come when they have children. 

Depending on our individual preferences and habits, our prayers can be short, as in “God bless America and give our people wisdom and virtue,” or they can be much longer and more specific invocations.

Understanding the temperaments of those around us makes for more peaceful, compassionate environments, providing practical guidance in rearing children, nurturing relationships, and navigating the workplace. 

There’s a wealth of wonderful content accessible on the internet, but most of us could benefit from a little less surfing of the unpredictable internet tides, and a little more time with a book in hand.

Brighten the corner where we are, and our country will be a better place.

These four recommendations – broad and wide-ranging as they are – were accepted as givens by the American founders, necessities that should be a part of every American child’s education. Yet they’re almost non-existent in today’s public schools – the same schools that are in vast disarray.

Men and women should, and often do, get along quite well – we have the continuation of the human species to show for that. Yet we also need time away from one another, time where we can be freely masculine and freely feminine.

We hear a good deal these days about using children’s literature – fairy and folk tales, nursery rhymes and poems, and stories of heroes – as a vehicle for teaching character to children. Aesop is a good place to start.

In many ways, the new "Superman" is a classic American superhero story that, without the director’s off-screen commentary, might attract more conservative audiences.

My grandmother, an American by birth who spent 20 years as an overseas missionary, told me many times when I was a child that I was wealthy because I live in America. I never quite understood what she meant, nor appreciated it appropriately.

When we are worthless in the world’s eyes, we are worth more in God’s.

“Great books call for philosophical reflection; good books are popular, appealing especially to the imagination.”

If there is no grounding, if Christianity is only presented as a superficial belief that doesn’t “teach your moods ‘where they get off,’” then faith will be weak and few will continue the practice.