Eventually, if we are serious about building anything—a household, a church, a friendship, a community, a culture—we have to concern ourselves with preservation. We have to ask what threatens the thing we are building, what belongs inside it, what does not, what needs repair, what needs correction, what needs protection, and what perhaps needs to be driven away.More
Category Archives: Family
Receive Without Worship; Correct Without Vandalizing
It’s too easy to criticize the brilliant filmmaker Christopher Nolan for rewriting The Odyssey.
The harder and more actionable question is what kind of inheritance I am handling with this podcast.More
Cultivating a Steadfast Generation
Psalm 78 teaches us how history must be read. The main question is not simply, “What did our fathers do?” It is, “What did God do, and why?”More
God Settles the Solitary in a Home
In light of all these things, the question is not merely whether we believe God settles the solitary in a home.More
What the Proper Role for the Family, Community, and Nation Is in Fostering Prosperity
I want us to consider a certain question in light of these realizations, as the third entry in the Alliance for Responsible Citizenry survey has come to my attention in recent weeks.More
How to Facilitate the Development of a Responsible and Educated Citizenry
Encourage young men and women to get married, as young as is practicable in their adult years, and have children together they will raise together in stable, loving, God-fearing homesMore
We Just Keep On Having Babies While the World Approaches Peak Population
Not for no reason are we expecting our ninth. Ever since we said our vows back in November of 2006, we have resolved to keep Genesis 9:7 and Psalm 127:4 at the fore of our thinking.More
Sundry Summary Thoughts About Yes and No On New Year’s Eve 2022
As another year draws to a close, it occurs to me that planning boils down in the end to a series of Yes and No answers to various and multitudinous questions.More
Five Out of Five Mullets Return to Valheim
My four older sons and I returned this week to Valheim, the wonderful world of Viking survival, to begin again with our characters where we left off. We were not disappointed. More
All I Want for Christmas, the Deep State, and Visions Which Are Both Too Narrow and Too Broad
What must be the broader context, that the only thing Mariah Carey would ask for in a Christmas present would be time and attention from the one she loves?More