Oct 14, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
By a beautiful natural plan, we only grow into our true selves through experience. But not just any experiences will do. They must be of a certain kind, beginning with those fashioned by our parents and educators, and continuing through life in experiences we craft...
Oct 7, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
My title could be Recognizing that Life is Seasonal. Today, especially, we need to strive to live in memory of basic truths about human life. Awareness of seasonality is often a casualty of both our busyness and our technology-enabled independence from seasonal shifts...
Sep 30, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
I usually cringe at the old saying that children should be seen and not heard. For many of us it conjures an ugly image: a child who wants to be heard but is not. We all need to be heard. Indeed, life itself consists especially in speaking and being heard. Yet there...
Sep 23, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
The Ring of Gyges that makes you invisible is not the most famous image in Plato’s Republic. But this thought-provoking story might bring out a key way Christianity transcends even the best Greek philosophy. At issue: how important is it that we really be seen by...
Sep 16, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
According to Aristotle, our nature speaks through our needs. One of the central things it asks for—we might say ‘demands’—is that we live in households. But today our technological practices are obscuring our real needs; and so we miss what human nature is saying to...
Sep 9, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
Athey Keith is an unforgettable character—one of my favorites in all the fiction I’ve read. He appears in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, where he is a remarkable example of being a grandfather. While few today could repeat the particulars of Athey’s grandparenting, we...
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