Nov 30, 2020
Why did so many of the protests, often over legitimate grievances, turn into full-blown and violent riots this summer? Can what we saw really be explained by police brutality? Racism? BLM, Antifa, Right-wing militias?
Writing in First Things earlier this month, American author Mary Eberstadt offered a provocative...
Nov 27, 2020
Black Friday is less a day this year and more of a couple weeks, so we might not see the normal chaos from WalMart and Best Buy. Folks not trampling each other over smartphones and flat screen televisions is an improvement, of course, but the idol of stuff still claims socially distanced hearts and minds too.
One way is...
Nov 26, 2020
G.K. Chesterton said that gratitude was “nearly the greatest of all human duties, (and) nearly the most difficult.”
It is the greatest of human duties because, as Paul wrote the Corinthians, “what do we have that we did not receive?” Truth, tradition, technologies, medicine, democracy, relative peace, are all...
Nov 25, 2020
I often counsel parents against giving their kids unfettered access to the internet, especially in the privacy of their bedrooms. One mom told me recently that leaving her teenage son in his room at night with an unmonitored smartphone would be like leaving him alone with a naked woman all night.
She’s right.
As a...
Nov 24, 2020
Recently, a baby boy was born prematurely, at 23 weeks, in a Mexican hospital, with no vital signs. The doctor pronounced him dead and sent baby’s body to a refrigerator in the hospital morgue.
But when funeral workers arrived in the morgue six hours later to retrieve the body, they found that he was moving...