Happiness

I have known a number of unhappy single Christian women over the years. Many of...

In the original Twilight Zone there is an episode entitled, The Last Night of a...

In my advocacy for recovering the productive household, the first question I'm asked is, "Is...

Most of the time it is impossible to know why someone stops talking to you....

In many ways my life is a rags-to-riches story. I was thinking about this recently...

You may not like my advice. But if you have better advice, there are a...

I had something of a ride last week following the publication of something I wrote...

When I was in graduate school (Harvard Divinity School) one of my professors put the...

One of the conceptual blocks I ran into as a young convert was the notion...

That little reversal in the title of this post is intended to shake you out...

The best way to avoid disappointment is to not even try. Life is struggle. Jacob...

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

Leaf by Niggle is a personal favorite. It's right up there with Smith of Wootton...

Laws often trail practices, not the other way around. In most slave-keeping societies the law...

Karl Marx, among the absurd things he said (some things were pretty sound, but I'm...

"Have the courage to conclude."  (Don't recall where I read that, but it's good advice.)...

I have a book on the shelf that I really should to return to the...

Well, my daughter scored 720 on the math portion of the SAT. Not too shabby...

I assume you've endured, as I have, that self-congratulatory nostrum of the Authentic: "I'm spiritual...

You may not be familiar with the idiom, but an "ambulance chaser" is someone who...

Well, I'm heading down to Baltimore for the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Philosophy...

I actually had a Dos Equis for no other reason than The Most Interesting Man...

“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots...

Sexual desire is a swamp. There's no firm ground to stand on in psychology, biochemistry...

My latest contribution to my favorite magazine is available online. The magazine is Touchstone, and...

I recall reading somewhere that oriental potentates grew their fingernails long in order to show...

J. R. R. Tolkien in his famous essay, On Fairy Stories noted that a story...

Probably the thing that bugs me most about those tender sprouts who have grown up...

This weekend the Wall Street Journal confirmed what we pretty much know intuitively, stronger-looking men...