Tag: CULTURE

Our South is not a decaying land but rather a thriving one. We have a South worth celebrating and preserving, painted with the broad strokes of beauty, tradition, and a true fear of the Lord. 

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 our society inevitably becomes ever more the captive of technology, let’s fight for our humanity by embracing and practicing the useless things.

The trick – which admittedly, I have yet to master myself – is to be always attuned to the danger posed by political obsessiveness, and to refuse to limit yourself to being a purely “political animal.”

Many Americans are seeing the need to move away from the secular neutrality we’ve practiced in recent decades and instead plant the flag through spiritual grounding and Christian beliefs. Doing so is not as hard as we make it out to be.

Today’s students receive degrees rather than a true education. And unfortunately, a large number of these students are unaware of the difference.

Why is it that numbers of men seem to be turning to Christianity, but not so the women – at least not in the same dramatic numbers?

In the grand scheme of things, these simple gestures don’t take that long to teach our children – at least, if we continually model them to the little eyes watching us.

Poems can help us savor and appreciate life when it’s good and act as a bulwark and booster when it goes bad.

This spirit of change emanating from the broader U.S. government, all the way down through the larger private sector, even into our little lumber mill, suggests a unity in our world that isn’t often discussed.

Faithful craftsmanship has its eventual reward – and that is something which can bring joy to the heart of every American.

The future of America is in good hands. These young adults, the kids I sometimes call them, will be fine, and so will our country.

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

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

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?

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!

“Even if they know what is right, do all men always want to do it?”

Familiarity with the past means more than preserving our history. It is the map and compass for our future.

Well-educated is not the same as well-schooled. And sadly, most of what we call education today is actually schooling

Our country has a chance to take a new, healing direction. A good place to begin is by rolling back the unhealthy obsession with politicizing every arena of our private lives and public assemblies like sporting events.

If we want to ensure that our leaders remain good, pursuing righteous policies for our nation, then one of the simplest things we can do is get on our knees every day and pray for them.

If the father is the natural intermediary between the child and the world as a result of the biological differences between the mother and the father, then that is not a role to toss aside lightly.

Our country would do well to recover communal singing. Folk songs tell us about our national history in simple words that are easy to memorize. Anthems and fight songs reinforce our shared identity.

Give these gifts to our children, and we will have played a major role in making America good again.