Time for Parents to Resist Transgender Activism

by Emily Zinos

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2017

Violent Lessons

by Matthew Schmitz

Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who enters middle school has already witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on TV. As he and his friends enter adolescence, they take up first-person shooter video games. In college, he becomes . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2017

A Christmas Eve Carol

by Andrew Klavan

Mostly, I grew up a Jew among other Jews. So how had Jesus entered my imagination? How had he come to occupy its core? It took an effort of memory, but I reached back to the first time I had truly noticed him. It had happened on a Christmas Eve. Continue Reading »

23 Dec 2016

Junior Varsity Angel Wrestling Team

by Eve Tushnet

The film is in large part about the failures and sins of American church culture—but you can also tell that Cone is honoring the place and community that shaped him. Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2016

Childhood, Guardian-Style

by Carl R. Trueman

An article in The Guardian inadvertently indicates that the problems of our current political culture are deeply embedded in patterns of modern parenting. Continue Reading »

4 Nov 2016

Mister Bossy

by Brian Doyle

I think that was the first time in my entire life that I understood that sin was real. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2016

Learning to Play

by Elizabeth C. Corey

My piano tuner is well over eighty years old. Each time I call him, I fear I’ll learn that he has died. So far he is still with us, though at each visit a little more white-haired and frailer than before. I worry that he will hurt himself when he lies under the instrument or takes out the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2016

Did You Get to Jersey Much?

by Brian Doyle

But if you looked at the map closely you would notice towns with names like Hohokus, and Buttzville, and Ong’s Hat, and clearly those were goof names, which made you suspect that there was actually no such thing as New Jersey, that New Jersey was an idea, an illusion, a conspiracy, a deft jest perpetrated by cartographers in their cups and now accepted as wholly real by all sorts of people. Continue Reading »

8 Sep 2016

Willow Sunday

by Brian Doyle

Among my first memories in this wondrous world were brittle palm fronds folded reverently behind the four crucifixes in our childhood home. Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2016

Confessions to Father Newman

by Brian Doyle

“I would suggest that you not consider marriage again until you are at least ten years old.” Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016