In Philip Bess’ work Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred, he uses a Thomistic-Aristotelian framework (including but not limited to what he calls “my happy participation in and…
Throughout my career as a freelance author, there have been certain themes I keep returning to. One of these themes is the necessity for parents to demonstrate to their children that Christianity…
From my book Saints and Scoundrels, page 14: “…the greatest defense against evil is to enjoy the good…the strongest bulwark against unbelief is our capacity to love what is beautiful…the surest support…
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How can I be happy when everything in my life is going wrong? How can I be content when I don’t have everything I want? Those were some of the questions I…
A shorter version of this article first appeared in Salvo 27: Winter 2013. It has been updated and reprinted here with permission. Warning: in discussing the deviations of radical feminism, this article…
From James Kunstler’s Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century: “The suburban housing subdivision is not what it pretends to be. It is emphatically not a community, certainly…
From ‘My Pilgrimage Towards Gratefulness‘: [In his book Man’s Search For Meaning] Viktor Frankl described how conditions of extreme deprivation and cruelty enabled the prisoners to attain incredibly high levels of gratitude…
If you can get through this entire video, it could change your life. When I watched this entire video I was tempted about 12 times to fast-forward it to the end, but…
From ‘Hollowing Out the Habits of Attention (part 3)‘: For relationships to be healthy, we need to know how to suspend what we think and put ourselves in the mind of our…
Throughout this year I’ve been doing an ongoing series of blog posts on the topic of gratitude. I want to continue that discussion by looking at one of the main barriers to…
When presented with the challenges of Islam, it seems that the tendency within Western culture is to continually vacillate between trying to make the Muslim a community completely beyond critique, on the…
