How to Improve Your Spouse: Some Principles
Having written on topics related to marriage, I sometimes receive criticism and sometimes requests for advice. Marriage advice is about as thorny […]
Living By Faith (Beyond the Theological Kind)
Years ago, I wrote about the need to take action in order to have hope. We think of hope, perhaps, firstly, as […]
“Rawdogging”: We are So Uncomfortable with Risk-Taking Behavior We Can’t Even Let Men Do Nothing
When I first heard the phrase “rawdogging,” I involuntarily shuddered. I was reminded of the discovery of such horrors as “face riding” […]
Forgetting How to Read, Forgetting How to Feel
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to […]
“The Child is the Father of the Man”: Children and the Invitation to Eternity
Catherine Pakaluk’s book, “Hannah’s Children,” is concerned with the phenomenon of religious women who choose to welcome five or more children. There […]
Don’t Count on Other People’s Kids in Your Childfree Life
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” ― Neil Postman Living in cultural decline is easiest […]
Don’t Believe the Hype; Low-Tech Childhood Still Possible
Phones, tablets, and television are a subject on which many parents have caved. Like sugar and junk food, many people have convinced […]
Catherine Pakaluk’s “Hannah’s Children”: The Hidden Motives of Those Who Welcome Children
“Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth” is a unique book. The qualitative economic study of college-educated women in the […]
Books as Friends: Reading to Cultivate Desire for Immaterial Goods
“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak…” -John Donne, “To Sir Henry Wotton” Happening upon a book […]
Demographic Collapse is a Local Issue: The Response is Personal
A strange new coalition of vaguely conservative political actors is taking shape. One of the common threads is concern over declining birth […]