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  • The Importance of Building Small

    The Importance of Building Small0

    I am not a carpenter, and my hands are more comfortable on a keyboard than a skill saw. But I took it upon myself to try to build something this summer, namely, a coat closet and built-in cabinets with a window seat around the window in our entryway, where coats and boots and other outdoor

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  • Sophie Cunningham and the Philosophical Reason Bodies Matter

    Sophie Cunningham and the Philosophical Reason Bodies Matter0

    Considerable backlash erupted from Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) members and fans after player Sophie Cunningham made commonsensical remarks about the participation of biological males in women’s sports. This backlash, in turn, led to a re-evaluation of the WNBA’s policies. It seems we have yet another instance where we must ponder Matt Walsh’s infamous question,

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  • Fragmented Attention? It Isn’t Just Your Brain.

    Fragmented Attention? It Isn’t Just Your Brain.0

    If we’re following culture’s prevailing train of thought, we’ve grown accustomed to considering our failing attention spans as the product of our brains. Our culture constantly prompts mental hyperactivity, and our brains are slowly being rewired to crave the instant dopamine hits that online platforms can give. Indeed, the conversation around attention focuses heavily on

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  • The Pleasure and Pain of Nostalgia

    The Pleasure and Pain of Nostalgia0

    Nostalgia derives from the Greek words “algos,” meaning grief or pain, and “nostos,” homecoming. In centuries past, physicians considered nostalgia a disease. In the first two years of the Civil War, for instance, Union army doctors diagnosed this intense longing for home and family as a serious and debilitating illness, with 2,588 reported cases and “13 deaths

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  • A Relationship Requires Someone Who Can Say No

    A Relationship Requires Someone Who Can Say No0

    We’ve entered a new era of sycophancy. Because we now live in a world of AI companions, many of us are familiar with the insufferable flattery that these machines bestow upon us. It’s pleasantry and passiveness at all costs. And it just makes good business sense. The major AI companies need us to be on

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  • Is a Good Man Hard to Find?

    Is a Good Man Hard to Find?0

    The reading of Ephesians 5 in church, the part about husbands and wives, always amuses me. Some of the women in the congregation stiffen or frown when they hear: “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church … so

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