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The Overlooked Step Turning Kids Into Readers 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Literature, MomThink
- July 28, 2026
On a recent Saturday morning seven of my grandchildren from two different families came to my apartment for an ice cream breakfast, now a once-or-twice a year Grandpa tradition. After they’d eaten their fill of ice cream covered with fruits, chocolate chips, butterscotch or chocolate syrup, and whipped cream topped with the customary cherry, we
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T (And Why Parents Need More Than a Little of It)0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- July 28, 2026
Social media has become rather synonymous with drama queens and rage baiters. How else is an influencer going to gain followers or views without a healthy heaping of angst and hormones? And before TikToks and Instagram stories, bloggers dominated the tell-all scene, spilling more tea than the Boston Harbor protest, many still doing so to modest acclaim. While perusing such tabloid tactics, I’ve noticed one topic increasingly discussed among Gen
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ChatGPT Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden 0
- Culture, Featured, Science, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2026
A 29-year-old mother committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic after allegedly being encouraged to do so by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Her family is suing the company, pointing to a dark relationship the troubled woman, Christian Faith Madison, developed with the AI robot. In Madison’s parasocial relationship, as with many others that
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The Poison Behind the Secret 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- July 28, 2026
Recently, I wrote about the occult principles and practices that underpin the famous self-help book “Think and Grow Rich” (1937), by Napoleon Hill. Today, I want to examine another, much more recent book containing the same troubling ideas and background. When Rhonda Byrne’s book-and-movie combo “The Secret” burst onto the scene in 2006, it caused a sensation.
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Why Community Matters and How It Works 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- July 27, 2026
In the movie “Independence Day,” with extraterrestrials attempting to annihilate the human race, U.S. President Thomas J. Whitmore addresses a ragtag band of pilots, the last hope of repelling the invasion, saying: In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial
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The Arts Are Healthier Than You Think 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
In “A Pattern Language,” Christopher Alexander and his co-authors write that, when choosing a building site on a piece of land, most people pick the healthiest, sunniest, most beautiful place they can find – a mountain meadow, a clearing next to a stream. Alexander and his co-authors argue for the opposite. You should build on
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