In 2024, the Israel-Palestine conflict incited protests, sit-ins, and marches across American college campuses. Although this debate is far from over, a new cause has taken precedence among young Americans: protesting deportations, arrests, and violence at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Both issues bring the age-old question of free speech versus
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The writer of Ecclesiastes had seen enough of the world. Wealth, wisdom, labor, pleasure – he’d tried them all and arrived at the same conclusion: Vanity. A breath. A chasing after wind. No one seems to talk about Ecclesiastes anymore. Not even in Christian circles. Scholars and early Jewish rabbis have argued for centuries over
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Today’s cultural and political landscape is rife with discussion about morality. But even though everyone has an opinion about who is “good” and who is “evil,” most of us probably wouldn’t be able to define “goodness.” Goodness is About More Than Morality Not surprisingly, our first association with the word “goodness” likely has to do with “right”
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March is National Reading Month. Inspired by the March 2 birthday of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, the event is aimed at children, families, and communities, with a heavy emphasis on the younger crowd. Given the decline in reading and the increasing failure by many public schools to teach grade-level literacy, this emphasis should be applauded.
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What makes a city good? Any human dwelling place is good insofar as it helps its inhabitants live well and achieve their ultimate end. The city must provide shelter, work, protection, and the other necessities of life. But a truly good city will support the flourishing of human life and community in all its dimensions:
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Saints are heroes, but heroes are rarely saints. When nuance was still a word in the American vocabulary, we understood that a hero came with warts. Take Robert E. Lee, for instance. Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Lee “one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation” and kept his portrait in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt described Lee as
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