Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The New College Counterculture
Hip. Suave. Chic.” These are not the words from a car commercial. They are what Princeton student…
The Last Man and the First Man
Scanning half a dozen major journals for obituaries devoted to the most important mystery writer of our…
My Year in Reading
Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to…
Time to Challenge No-Fault Divorce
High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system…
Freedom From Food
If vegetarianism is the dietary equivalent of pacifism, then Soylent is a form of dietary celibacy. Soylent…
A Biblical Vision of Marriage
Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the…
Grateful Hearts
During the 1970s Paul Williams’s talents as a singer, songwriter, composer and actor were in high demand.…
Catholic Capitulation on Marriage
Fr. Timothy Lannon, President of Creighton University, my former employer, has announced that starting in 2015 the…
My Plea
The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found out that as a divorced and…
The Five Stages of Grieving the Art of Jeff Koons
It is Sunday night, and the Whitney Museum of American Art has been open for thirty-some hours…
Derek Jeter’s Enduring Legacy
As the World Series comes to an end, and with it another post-season, there was one noticeable…
Good News for the Naked Public University
Recently, an academic administrator informed me that passing judgment on others’ sexual orientation or religious beliefs was…
The Problem of Self Loathing at Evangelical Colleges
When I was an undergraduate at an evangelical college in the Pacific Northwest, I encountered a unique…
Religion and Family Around the Globe
All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this…
Their Decadence and Ours
The last quarter of the nineteenth century saw movements calling themselves “decadent” in both England and France,…
