Family

How Holiday Spending Reveals a Deeper Financial Crisis 0
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured
- December 18, 2025
For many Americans, Christmas is one of the happiest times of the year, whether spending time with family or watching children tear open gifts. But the holidays also represent a stressful time for families – especially when it comes to money. According to a recent Gallup poll, 37% of Americans anticipate spending at least $1,000 on
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Christmas vs. Consumerism 0
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured
- December 16, 2025
It’s easy to imagine the moment King Solomon – while sitting amid his beautiful parks and gardens – suddenly realized all his riches and accomplishments would eventually crumble to rubble. His paradise. The First Temple. National wealth. Indeed, all the grandeur he accumulated was ultimately decimated by Babylonian conquest. Solomon surmised that “all the deeds
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Of Christmas Parades and Commonplace Joys 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion
- December 11, 2025
The first Saturday of December once again brought joy to my small hometown. This is the day when the annual Christmas parade brings several thousand locals to sidewalks in the center of town to watch, laugh, and shout with boisterous pride as floats, dancers, and marching bands wind their way through the cold streets. As
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Making the Case for Handmade Gifts 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 10, 2025
My cousin gave me a handmade card for one of my childhood birthdays. It wasn’t just any handmade card: it was made on thick, glossy paper, complete with baubles and expensive, elegant stickers. If I remember correctly, that was her only gift to me that year. But that didn’t matter: I treasured the card, often
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Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 9, 2025
When I hear the phrase “book ban,” the image that comes to mind is something straight out of “Fahrenheit 451” – books torn from private residences, doused in kerosene, and thrown onto a blazing funeral pyre of intellectual tradition, removing all certainty that such works ever existed. Yet when American media uses the phrase “book
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What Makes Us Happy?0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Health, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion
- December 8, 2025
Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships –
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