David Mills

Thomas Spence, the head of Spence Publishing, explains How to Raise Boys Who Read . Many experts, he notes, recognize the problem but predictably offer the wrong answer, along the inevitable lines of “make it easier.” E. Christian Brugger, a senior fellow of the Culture of Life . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, Show Us the Money , I offer a response to the progressive Catholic’s invocation of “history” and “change,” and a practical, can’t miss, money-back-guaranteed suggestion for responding to the invocation . . . . Continue Reading »

Extroverted Evangelicals can drive introverts away, observes a Presbyterian minister in Introverts in America . And worse: Even more dangerous is the tendency of evangelical churches to unintentionally exalt extroverted qualities as the “ideals” of faithfulness. Too often . . . . Continue Reading »

“It’s as if he’s trying to spread his personal chronic sickness of Anhedonia,” is Mary Rose Somarriba’s judgment of Woody Allen’s latest movies. Writing in The Grim Reaper of Comedy , today’s “On the Square” article, she argues that his movies . . . . Continue Reading »

It is a bad sign when the head of a Catholic college’s theology department ends an interview by calling Pope Benedict an Austrian. Father Mark Massa rewrote the pope’s biography in an interview with the Religion News Service, which talked to him about his book The American Catholic Revolution: How the ’60s Changed the Church Forever… . Continue Reading »

One of the rules for our small town’s park reads: “Persons engaging in horseplay and/or using foul language without regard for the safety of others will be expelled from the park.” It’s wonderful to find a town that recognizes profanity as dangerous. . . . . Continue Reading »

Classics scholar and translator Sarah Ruden explains what she learned when reading St. Paul against the classics . For example, “there’s a single civilization, and it moves toward greater idealism . . . . You have all these philosophies arising from the ancient world as educated people . . . . Continue Reading »

Now up on “On the Square”: Joseph Knippenberg’s Moderating Patriotism , examining the differences between the conservative pairing of God and country and what he calls the “liberal cosmopolitan” pairing of universal empathy and human rights. It’s a kind of . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers will want to know about The City , a (fairly) new and impressive journal published by Houston Baptist University. For one thing, its writers include many names that have appeared in First Things , like our web editor Joe Carter, Matthew Lee Anderson, and Ryan T. Anderson (all . . . . Continue Reading »

“The New Testament does not seem to encourage patriotism,” and neither did St. Augustine, argues R. R. Reno in today’s first “On the Square” article, Patriots in Babylon . “It is easy, therefore, for a Christian to take an entirely critical stance toward . . . . Continue Reading »