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3 Ways To Escape the Doom-And-Gloomers
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- June 2, 2026
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I have introduced some feral sheep to the countryside around my property. Not on purpose, mind you. One bright morning a few weeks ago, I was buckling my toddler into her car seat so we could go to church, when she observed that the sheep were on the wrong side of the fence. Twenty minutes
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Science and God are often set in opposition to one another. But this is a false dilemma. Not only did many prominent early scientists (such as Albert the Great, Sir Isaac Newton, and Robert Boyle) believe in God, but scientific discoveries themselves increasingly point to the existence of a Creator who transcends the physical universe.
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In the 2017 documentary “LOOK & SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” the great cultural and agricultural writer Wendell Berry stated: We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only
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My grandfather attended a one-room schoolhouse as a child, although he sometimes was thrown out for smelling like the skunks he pulled from his trapping route on the way to school. He made some good money checking his traps on the path to and from school, paid by Sears, Roebuck and Co. for the pelts
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