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Category Archives: Family
Montana Nursing Home Closures, the Merchant of Death, and Cameron Bertuzzi
Aesthetics is well and good, but Bertuzzi’s reasons are definitionally superficial. Whatever he says about Bayesian analysis, methinks he had a conclusion in search of justification. More
How Personality Tests Relate to Kevin DeYoung Making The Case for Having Kids
JP Chavez asks whether there is a benefit to Christians taking personality tests like the MBTI, and Kevin DeYoung published a stellar essay titled ‘The Case for Kids.’More
Andrew Tate’s Grandmother, Elon Musk and Ukraine, and ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’
Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that we do indeed wrestle against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. And perhaps these are them.More
Three Years in Colorado, Plutarch’s Life of Camillus, and Credentialism
We would all be better off if fewer of us went to college, and more of us read our Bibles and Plutarch instead, and then became conversant with one another about what both can teach us.More
Whether the American Church Really Idolizes Marriage and Motherhood
Is motherhood a woman’s highest calling? It is, according to someone Jen Oshman – author of Cultural Counterfeits – encountered at a baby shower a few years ago. More
‘The Histories of Polybius,’ Watching ‘300’ with my Sons, and Mark O’Leary Gives Advice
Polybius being a Greek in Rome, his going to such lengths to chronicle the rise of Rome and the fall of the Greeks itself tells how important these things were to both peoples.More
The Means and Ends of Success and What It Profits a Man to Gain the Whole World
Answering what the goal of the podcast is, and how talking about my new desk or vasectomies relates, the admonition our Lord gives in the gospels is at the fore of my attentions.More
Women as Wives, Mothers, Sisters, and Widows
Besides defining men and women, what is a man or woman supposed to do and be about? Answer that, and you will get a lot closer to understanding what a man or woman is. More
Loving God With Everything You’ve Got, and Your Neighbor as Yourself
Given the importance of relationships to a happy, healthy, holy life, we do well to grapple with what to do when various relationships in life present competing claims.More