Western Civilization

Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Western Civilization
- May 22, 2026
Science and God are often set in opposition to one another. But this is a false dilemma. Not only did many prominent early scientists (such as Albert the Great, Sir Isaac Newton, and Robert Boyle) believe in God, but scientific discoveries themselves increasingly point to the existence of a Creator who transcends the physical universe.
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Make Volunteering Great Again 0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- May 21, 2026
While at home over Christmas break this past December, I attended a volunteer opportunity as a chaperone for my church youth group. We worked a shift at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), a ministry that ships hand-packed meals to distribution partners worldwide. A mix of upbeat pop tunes and Christian hits blared as we washed
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Why Do Reading Scores Keep Declining?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
Reading scores for students in the United States have declined significantly in the last 15 years, a slide which continues in the most recent Nation’s Report Card. Some point to the school closures during the Covid pandemic as cause for this decline. Doubtless the lockdowns had an impact, yet data shows that test scores were already
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A Simple Formula for Restoring Modern Society 0
- Culture, Family, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
In the 2017 documentary “LOOK & SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” the great cultural and agricultural writer Wendell Berry stated: We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only
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Because Our Sidewalks Need Fixing 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 19, 2026
Imagine you are strolling along your downtown sidewalks. To your left you see a vacant lot overrun with weeds. The street to your right isn’t safe and needs to be avoided. A fellow across the block is using hard drugs in broad daylight. There are loads of shuttered buildings and, besides you, very little foot
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‘The Boys’ Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Abortion 0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Western Civilization
- May 18, 2026
Ever since it flew from the page to the screen in 2019, the crass and explicit action/comedy television satire, “The Boys,” has tried to hold a critical mirror up to elements of modern, American society. To its credit, it often hones in on some dysfunctional, perennially problematic flaw of human nature, and, because of its
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