
Journalist Rebecca Reid recently responded to the news that homesteading influencer Hannah Neeleman was expecting her ninth child with the following comment: You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids. Reid’s response reminded me of a
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Old age has made me more aware that many national and international events play out more as farce than tragedy, with the comedy heavily dependent on irony for its laughs. The same folks who want to control the climate zip about the world in private jets. The elected representatives invested with “the power of the
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There’s a persistent pressure in the air – felt in every news headline, on every social media platform. A war breaks out. A celebrity says something provocative. A politician signs a bill. And almost immediately, we’re asked: What’s your opinion? We’ve conflated access to information with mandatory commentary. Because we can see everything in real
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The influential professor and educator John Senior proposed a bottom-up approach to cultural transformation. “Restorations never start in the collapsing tops but always in the dull low places of simple hearts,” he argued in “The Restoration of Christian Culture.” In his biography of Senior, Fr. Francis Bethel added, “Rebuilding culture calls for quiet and hidden work
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Every day a new poem from the Society of Classical Poets arrives in my inbox. Published recently were two poems, “Beelzebots” and “Blabberbots,” by Susan Jarvis Bryant. First up is “Blabberbots”: The day he called that twaddle-bot a she Instead of just a simple, soulless it, Is when my smitten eyes began to see This chatter-slut was stirring
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Despite the fact that God’s existence is hotly debated, the existence or non-existence of God has little effect on most of our lives. But if one really understands what is meant by “God,” then the existence of that God would make all the difference. What is Existence … FOR US? We think about our own existence in
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