It’s been a good year for reading!
Wise words from historian Thomas Kidd for your summer writing goals
Historian Thomas Kidd’s advice for summer writing goals.
Seeking Intellectual Freedom
In an age of echo chambers, where can we encounter views different from our own?
Blessing of Unicorns: Mother’s Day edition
Where I recommend a few articles and books on motherhood.
Is book publishing doomed? Point and counterpoint
The rumors of the death of book publishing have been greatly exaggerated.
Essential Latin for graduation season
Congrats, grads! Please utilize Latin terms responsibly!
Blessing of Unicorns: Choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires
This week’s Unicorns include choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires, and more.
The encouraging work of Upper House in Madison, WI
What does higher education need next?
Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
This week’s Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
New antisemitism: “A Hatred Immune to Education”
When it comes to antisemitism in America, it’s out with the old, in with the new.
REVIEW: The Exvangelicals
There’s more than one way to deconstruct
Blessing of Unicorns: Books, books, books–and exercise!
This week’s roundup includes books coverage and essays on exercise. But it’s okay to read about exercise and not feel like you need to go for a run or something after.
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: through an index darkly
Here is a glimpse of my forthcoming book through five entries in the index.
Historian Chris Gehrz on ranking Christian colleges
Historian Chris Gehrz on why college rankings are particularly problematic when it comes to ranking Christian colleges.
INTERVIEW: Shirley Mullen on the Courageous Middle
Wanted: those with the skill and desire to host difficult conversations
Blessing of Unicorns: 1929, children and parenting, C.S. Lewis, and levitating saints
This week’s roundup includes articles on 1929 in detective fiction, our “family unfriendly” society, C.S. Lewis, and saints who really flew!
Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted
Nancy French’s memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.
#Eclipse2024: party on a Monday afternoon
Judging by the number of eclipse related posts on social media over the past few days and, especially, today, it appears that the Williams family wasn’t the only one to take a few hours off from usual activities today just […]
Blessing of Unicorns: April Fools jokes; political Bibles; marriage, vocation, and education; euthanasia
Behold the unicorns! This week we move from the funny to the thought-provoking and to the depressing.
Six months after October 7th, where are the remaining 100+ hostages?
This Sunday marks six months since the Hamas attack on Israel. What will happen to the remaining 100+ hostages still in captivity?