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  • Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?

    Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?0

    • September 18, 2015

    Stories of refugees and immigration fill the news. After the awful image of a drowned child washed up on a Turkish beach was promoted around the world, one gets the feeling that any opposition to refugees and migrants is unacceptable. I have a child that age and I see her when I look at that

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  • People in 1890 Waited Longer to Get Married, Too

    People in 1890 Waited Longer to Get Married, Too0

    • September 18, 2015

      As you may have heard, Americans are getting married at later ages than previous generations. Many quickly chalk that fact up to a modern tendency to avoid responsibility and commitment. But it might not be so simple as that.  Currently, in America, the median age for men’s first marriage is 28.7, and for women

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  • C.S. Lewis on the 4 Major Differences between the Present and the Recent Past

    C.S. Lewis on the 4 Major Differences between the Present and the Recent Past0

    • September 18, 2015

    You may have read C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, and perhaps you’ve even read some of his nonfiction works such as Mere Christianity or The Abolition of Man.   But chances are you haven’t come across Lewis’ “De Descriptione Temporum” (“On the Description of Ages”) – the first lecture he gave after receiving the

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  • Are We Discouraging Parenting?

    Are We Discouraging Parenting?0

    • September 18, 2015

    Do you know children who are being raised by their grandparents – or were you even one yourself? According to Time, roughly 2.7 million U.S. grandparents are raising their grandchildren, a number that has risen in the last 20 years. What’s driving the increase in custodial grandparents? “Addiction and incarceration rates, child abuse and neglect,

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  • What is “Secularism”?

    What is “Secularism”?0

    • September 17, 2015

    What is fascinating about our times is the dominant cultural narrative is set against religion. By that we mean that our modern secular society depends upon acknowledging that previous cultures were established upon religion and we are not. In other words, we as a society are moving away from something, that something being a religious

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  • These Americans Can’t Answer Simple Citizenship Questions: Are Schools to Blame?

    These Americans Can’t Answer Simple Citizenship Questions: Are Schools to Blame?0

    • September 17, 2015

    September 17th marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. To recognize “Constitution Day,” the day “when all schools receiving federal funds are expected to provide lessons or other programming on our most important founding document,” the folks at the Fordham Institute prepared a special project. They examined the mission statements of the

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