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Instead of immediately jumping to conclusions, pointing fingers, and getting angry, would we demonstrate superiority of mind and character if we swallowed our pride and instead believed the best about those who seek to offend us? 

Is there a way to arrive fairly at a verdict of these figures past and present? 

How can we preserve ourselves as we navigate this world and stay grounded in reality and truth? The answer is to pursue the cardinal virtues, particularly temperance.

Far from cheating a child out of love and attention, giving him siblings may actually present him with the best gift of childhood.

Here are seven simple actions in that “make your bed” vein that will brighten the corner where you are and make the world a better place. 

Refusing to engage with every issue is the real counterculture. And the truth is that most of the time, we lack enough information to take a well-informed position.

These are simple things. Elemental. All we need to do is begin with these ordinary things right in front of us. Like the mustard seed of the Gospel, what we plant now will grow into something far beyond our reckoning.

A man can be a hardworking, multi-talented person who brings home a decent paycheck. But unless his copilot is adept at helping manage those funds wisely, their mutual project is likely to go down in flames.

Like many another poet, Bryant raises a red flag in both poems, a warning that we have created an intelligence we believe we can control, but which may easily become our master. 

It’s counterintuitive, but giving up something that makes us happy often makes us happier.

If God is just another contingent being, even a very powerful one, then we can reasonably ignore God in the same way that we can reasonably ignore aliens. But if God is transcendent, then God is by definition beyond Creation. 

The reality is that even the most mediocre of homeschool parents are giving their children a better education and a better childhood than if they went the “traditional” route of government-funded schools. 

Death and punctuation share a common function. Both are endings, one marking a completed sentence, the other a completed life.

Even though mutual desire between man and woman is natural and good, love cannot stop there. It must go further, especially as the couple grows older.

What does the popularity of erotic books or movies reveal about who we are becoming as a society? 

These four attributes help explain why all of Shackleton’s crew survived their war with nature. These same attributes can strengthen individuals and families, and make for happier lives.   

When we train children to be dependent on screens – even in their locus of education – they will not learn to become independent thinkers who can aptly discuss ideas or debate arguments; they will instead be easily propagandized, sucked in by a steady stream of images.

Birthing a child does less for you in the social hierarchy than earning a PhD, no doubt. But bearing and birthing a child asks something of you for the sake of your family. 

If the alt-media is to survive and serve its proper function – which certainly includes challenging and unmasking the corruption in our public institutions – it must avoid discrediting itself the same way that the mainstream media has done.

Faith and reason have been described as “two wings” that raise us to the contemplation of truth. Each is useless without the other. Our wings both need to be strengthened so that our spirit can fly more easily to the one who is Truth itself.

How far down this rabbit hole of crudity will America fall? Is there a bottom? And how long can a culture stand on a foundation made of mud and swamp water?

Stunning churches and cathedrals draw our attention to the immense importance of faith. They’re not “accessible”; they’re aspirational.

It seems the reason for recent resistance toward military entanglements in Greenland is far more simple, namely, the importance of freedom. 

The rollout of the 40th anniversary American Girl commemorative dolls seems like just one of the dozens of ways our culture attempts to “set fire” to the country we know and love.

When economies were built around families, mothers simply adopted the physical bearing and feeding of children primarily while the husband handled the other aspects of their domestic world.

Just as we want to give our children healthy food to become part of their body, we want to give them healthy sensory, imaginative, and emotional inputs to become part of their souls and shape them in an upright manner.

Forgiveness is chivalry of the soul in action.