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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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  • Let Your Child Take the L

    Let Your Child Take the L0

    Respected Tennessee teacher Samira Hardcastle resigned after being pressured not to flunk a student who didn’t complete a homework assignment. The student’s parents complained to school administration after she refused to change the student’s grade, and school staff ordered the grade changed. When Hardcastle refused to comply, school administration changed the grade themselves. For schools like

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  • The Traditional Christian Virtue That Best Predicts Relationship Success

    The Traditional Christian Virtue That Best Predicts Relationship Success0

    There’s an old story about a psychologist inching his way up a battered, gray-and-white speckled mountain. He scrapes and scrabbles his way up the cliff faces and ice walls, a breathless ascent, thinking all the time that he’ll enjoy in solitude an indescribable view with the knowledge of being the first person to ever scale

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