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It is perfectly fine if we don’t know all there is to know about every trend. You haven’t failed if you haven’t listened to that viral interview, or heard the latest on that breaking news saga, or checked out that interesting new host.

The example of the men in Scott’s expedition shows that science, songs, and manners matter when your tent is gone and the temperature is 70 below. If they matter then, they matter now – after all, you do not know what the day may bring forth.

It turns out that the best preventative medicine doesn’t come in a bottle, a gym, or a cookbook. It comes inside a church. 

Ladies, if something as simple as putting on a pretty dress for a day of average work could improve your attitude and make others step up to more responsibility and kindness, would you do it?

Should the arts belong to only one side of the political aisle?

Kristina’s story runs counter to the world’s message. The culture insists women should “have it all”—career, independence, recognition. But she knows those promises often leave women exhausted, enslaved to the world’s expectations and missing God’s blessings.

Andrew Lloyd Webber once called “Some Enchanted Evening” the “greatest song ever written for a musical.” There’s a reason for the song’s continuing fame and popularity. It’s called romance. 

If General Allenby and his forces had not familiarized themselves with the Bible, they would have completely missed the hidden knowledge which made their victory possible.Al

Alas, if we want to restore the moral order, it starts with each of us, no matter our station or vocation in life. Each of us must love the good and be courageous in all we do.

Those tempted to embrace polygamy as some sort of antidote to the anti-child and anti-fertility bent of the world would do well to heed Ismael’s story.

Like the pioneers of old, the self-reliant understand that everything comes with a cost. Our wants, our needs, even love itself: all exact a price.

Remembering the dead forces us to slow down and recall the tragedies and triumphs of our ancestors’ stories, which are a part of our own story, whether we like it or not.

Connecting the present to the heroes of the past just might be one way to restore hope for the future.

If anything, "Christian" should be a badge of honor adorning the best movies, the truest books, the most beautiful paintings, and the poems of greatest honesty and feeling.

Decide where your blessings come from, discover the Giver of that gift, and see where it leads you.

If we wish to awake from our collective psychosis regarding masculinity and femininity, then we must realize that change starts with how we present ourselves to the world. 

If communal reading sees even a revival in small pockets of our local communities, I imagine that eventually our larger culture will be blessed, if only for the opportunity  to sit together with neighbors or friends.

What we perceive as the easy way, or as our own way, more often than not ends in learning things the hard way. When this happens, when the easy way becomes hard, it often breaks us.

Despite what we say, we are not "consuming content" so much as "dignifying photos, videos, and articles with our attention." Your sight is powerful. Use it wisely.

The modern mania for speed, efficiency, and control has run wild, sending us careening off the cliff of common sense and into a brave new world where we’d rather not be bothered even to tell our own stories or sing our own songs.

Every movie, show, or video we consume is quietly teaching us something. Sometimes the messages are helpful. More often though, in our modern culture, they are not.

Ever wonder what's driving the lack of millennial marriage and birthrates?

There is one group that will bear the worst of this revolution: families – especially young ones.

Amusement isn’t all bad – in fact, the relaxation and joy it can bring are necessary to our flourishing as human beings. But in our amusement, are we receivers or creators?

Develop a sense of gratitude now, even if it’s just for taking part in this mystery we call life, and old age will come to you as a friend. 

The practice of dressing decorously reveals, both to ourselves and to others, that we believe in an ordered universe where norms of respect and modesty keep the sacred separate from the casual.

My advice to men? Make something. Build a legacy. Be a leader. Don’t let your presence on earth result in a zero sum or – heaven forbid – a net loss