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  • Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis0

    “The world is too much with us,” wrote Wordsworth. Today, frightened by continuous coverage of COVID-19, few would disagree. “What you focus on creates your experience,” writes Winifred Gallagher in her book Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Gallagher continues, “choosing those targets wisely is the key to the good life.”  Gallagher wouldn’t advise ignoring COVID-19, yet

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  • Relativism is Enslaving

    Relativism is Enslaving0

    • April 7, 2016

    Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.”   G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.”   The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to

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  • Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare

    Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare1

    This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.                                Shakespeare – Hamlet (sic) These words from arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play were quoted

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  • Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age

    Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age18

    On a midsummer’s morning, a close friend and I met for coffee. Anne is married, retired, and the mother of four and grandmother of several. Although we talk often by phone, nearly two years had passed since we’d last seen each other, and we’d both, well, softened with age. For a while, we sipped our

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  • Rejecting Socialism While Restoring America’s Christian Roots

    Rejecting Socialism While Restoring America’s Christian Roots0

    In a recent article, Annie Holmquist maps out the twisting path leading eventually from liberalism to communism. She points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address in which he declared, “Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.” To avoid this slide, she urges a

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  • Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School

    Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School1

    The COVID lockdowns enabled parents nationwide to see inside their children’s public-school classrooms. Many realized their kids were being taught the divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT), a race-essentialist ideology, and have fought back any way they can. Some are homeschooling their kids, while others are enrolling them in parochial schools that do not teach CRT.

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