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Will therapy endure? It may, but only if people continue to turn a blind eye to the problems that plague the industry.

Popcorn books offer some nutritional value, yes, but I tend to consume them as I would a bowl of popcorn, a bit mindlessly, taking pleasure in the consumption as much as in the contents. 

If we want to avoid the grasping clutches of government control, then maybe it’s time we do everything possible to advance the family – including its role in the education of children.

Children exposed to the harsh realities of the world too soon will be even less able to handle them as adults.

If a large portion of Americans don’t even know the details of the one thing that unites them, how long do we expect unity to last?

There are many ways of dying, and one of them is feeling alone and alienated from others. The only cure for that condition is us.   

If parents have given their children the tools to make wise financial decisions, then they must also step back and resist the temptation to bail them out when they make poor ones.

As a nation of immigrants, if race and ethnicity don’t bind us together, what does?

There’s a place for everyone on this work crew rehabbing the house of Western civilization.

What then, is the real fix, the formula for building a decent society? Kirk names the following four things: religious instruction, family life, private responsibilities, rewards for good character.

Are our cities truly beautiful, places where artists set up their easels to capture a beautiful building or skyline with architecture so magnificent that it moves one? Not necessarily, and that’s a tragedy, for beautiful buildings are places which awe, inspire, calm, and bring a sense of repose to our lives.

The right labor performed in the right spirit becomes a form of worship.

Love and gratitude make for a good life and a good death.

Today’s difficulties don’t mean we should throw marriage away. In fact, life shows that it’s the toughest goals that are usually the most worth pursuing.

In an age where every meal is an occasion for social media documentation, the fried bologna sandwich stands as a monument to the idea that good food need not announce itself with pretense.

When we confuse or ignore the “hierarchy of obligations,” which is a hierarchy of love, we wind up like Mrs. Jellyby, a hypocritical do-gooder gone bad.

Markle’s attempt to portray a cheerful, loving home atmosphere clearly shows that there is a cultural hunger and desire for that warm, loving place of refuge … yet both she – and many Americans – seem to be missing the mark. Why is this?

Before John Dewey, most people thought that the purpose of education was to pass on the ideals and values of our civilization. It was also seen as responsible for shaping each student into a human being in accordance with these beliefs.

Faith has led us out of the Dark Ages before and will do so again if we recover the humility to choose it.

American freedoms are so much a part of our daily lives, so taken for granted, that we rarely give them a second thought.

Find your rest in Christ, not the gifts or abilities that He has given to you.

Parents can glean a number of insights from Tolkien’s upbringing in the hopes of awakening some of the same hidden genius in their own offspring.

Childhood itself is at stake here. The playing fields of the imagination are being rapidly replaced by digitalized games, social media, and the artifice of screens.   

The “Great Experiment” continues – may the Liberty Bell always ring out for freedom in America!

What does our increased use of once-obscene language in our conversations and in the public square say of our culture? Does it elevate our social and civil interactions, or is it one more sign of crudity in our increasingly ragtag civilization?

Unlike the federal workers currently being called to give an account for their labors, mothers can actually give an answer – confidently knowing that their work is vast, broad, and nothing for which others can legitimately belittle them.

When it comes to AI and future technologies, we don’t have to passively accept what the powers-that-be impose upon us. We can and should follow the Amish model of publicly debating their human value.