Clickclickclickclick. The mower wouldn’t start. Normally, a muttered prayer and a few more turns of the key would get the old beast rumbling, but not this time. A new battery didn’t solve the problem, either. It was really and truly dead. With my yard approaching jungle-like conditions, I had no choice but to buy a
READ MOREHave you ever gone through some of life’s challenges and felt like you were alone in them? Sure, people knew that you experienced a breakup, or that you had a miscarriage, or that you were losing a close family member to cancer, or even that you were weathering financial difficulties. Yet when you came to
READ MOREEaster this year delivered some good news – or more accurately, some Good News. On Easter Monday, April 6, as the Artemis II spacecraft crew prepared to lose communication with NASA’s mission control while passing behind the moon, astronaut Victor Glover delivered this message back to earth: As we get close to the nearest point to the
READ MOREWorking moms are a hot topic right now, as the debate over the tradwife vs. the girl boss intensifies. But what is a tradwife? Is she necessarily a stay-at-home mom? And can she pull in an income too? Indeed, is it an outright requirement that she pulls her weight financially? So much has and should
READ MORE“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University,” William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped. It was likely a fair judgment when he said it, and if
READ MOREThe questions of God’s existence, nature, and will have captivated humanity from the beginning. Yet if God transcends all of creation, as Christians and classical theists claim, then how can we even say or discuss anything about God that makes any sense? This problem has led philosophers to ask about the nature of language itself.
READ MOREI’ve spent many happy hours volunteering in a program for inner-city children in Minneapolis since I was a teen. One of my tasks over the years has been helping these children with writing. There we sit, side by side, with me writing outlines and sentences, while they earnestly race to copy my example. Some get
READ MOREBy now, most of us have heard the news that a lot of women on dating apps are looking for a man who’s over six feet tall, makes at least a six-figure income, and is reasonably handsome. Besides being a bit shallow, I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with those starting points. In fact, these
READ MORESomething has made itself completely at home in American culture. It doesn’t look dangerous. It doesn’t usually feel malicious. Most of the time, it seems like normal conversation. And we’ve all participated in it more than we’d like to admit. It’s gossip. If I’m being charitable, I don’t believe most people gossip out of cruelty.
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