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  • C.S. Lewis and the Lavender Inner Ring

    C.S. Lewis and the Lavender Inner Ring0

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  • Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?

    Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?0

    It’s hard to deny that cases of ADHD have exploded in recent years. This is particularly true for boys, whose ADHD diagnoses, as the chart below shows, increased from 11 percent to 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2015. It’s easy to look at this increase and blame any number of things. Smartphones. Video games. Lack

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  • ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage

    ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage0

    What were the editors of the New York Times smoking when they decided to publish an op-ed by an anonymous official in the Trump Administration? “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” he wrote. He and his buddies are “the Resistance” – secret

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  • ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work

    ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work0

    After a decades-long career in film, theater, and education, actor Geoffrey Owens decided to take a part-time job as a cashier at Trader Joe’s. When customers and news outlets began posting photos of the actor bagging groceries, the resulting comments included a mix of mockery and what Owens describes as “job-shaming.” Fortunately, according to Owens, “the

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  • Three Ways We ‘Screwtape’ Our Families

    Three Ways We ‘Screwtape’ Our Families0

    The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is quite possibly one of the scariest books I’ve ever read. Not that it’s at all “scary” in the typical sense of the word. In fact, although the collection of letters is written as though it were authored by a demon named Screwtape, it also happens to be sarcastic,

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  • ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History

    ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History0

    The director and the star of “First Man,” a forthcoming film about Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, are congratulating themselves for leaving out one of the most dramatic moments in spaceflight and, indeed, 20th-century history, namely, astronaut Armstrong’s planting the American flag on the moon. The reason: We mustn’t be “jingoistic.” What’s next? Omitting the

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