In 1955, sociologist Albert Cohen published a now classic title in the criminological canon, Delinquent Boys. The book attempted to explain what Cohen described as “non-utilitarian” delinquency: acts of defiance demonstrating no objective purpose. There was no remunerative value to the actions, no obvious emotional fulfillment motivating them. Often these acts occurred in a gang setting, imbuing them with a...

　　How to Wrestle with God Before Wrestling with Your Spouse 　　By: Alisha Headley 　　“When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.”Proverbs 10:19 　　Have you ever spoken your mind to your spouse, and the words you spokeled to arguments? Have there been times that you wish you could take back your words? 　　I can’t...

　　When Anxious Thoughts Tie You in Knots 　　By: Anne Peterson 　　Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.- Philippians 4:6-7 　　How do we face each day...

　　Weekend, October 19, 2024 　　What Is Heaven Like? 　　Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a...

　　In 2014, HBO launched the first season of True Detective, its biggest debut, an eight-episode story created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, watched by almost 12 million people. It’s not hard to explain the success, but it’s a rare thing these days—romanticism. True Detective is a story for the end of the American mid-century, combining all the mysteries that scared...

　　As the old saying goes, “politics is downstream of culture.” Unfortunately, this tends to be forgotten in election years, when this observation is even more applicable. If conservatives want to understand why progressives think and vote the way they do, they need only look at their media which influences them in profound ways. 　　Accordingly, it might be a good idea...

　　What does “walk by the Spirit” really mean? 　　So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. - Galatians 5:16 　　In 1933, bowler Bill Knox had a large screen placed just above the bowling lane so that he couldn’t see the pins. All he could see was a few feet in front...

　　The Left in Anglospheric countries has long been influenced by the belief that these nations political practices and institutions are stuck in the past. While much of the world, driven by ideologies such as Marxism, nationalism, and liberal rationalism, has discarded practices and institutions deemed remnants of a bygone era in the belief that such actions are necessary to bring...

　　As Election Day approaches, I’ve been listening, though as little as possible, to our candidates for public office giving their standard speeches on their standard issues. These, frankly, are boring. The crowds may respond with (apparently) spontaneous enthusiasm and even excitement, but the words being spoken are more or less boilerplate, what the French call langue de bois, or xyloglossie,...

　　In the Poetics, Aristotle argues that we are by nature imitators. Poetry, as atype of imitation,gives pleasure because by it, says Aristotle, we “come to understand and work out what each thing is.” Charles Taylor—one of the preeminent living philosophers—does not think Aristotle’s poetics viable in modernity, an age of self-creation. 　　The 92-year-old Canadian is a specialist in hefty books. His latest...

　　Weekly Overview: 　　This life is marked by a single choice: who or what will we center our lives around? This choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, what we feel, who or what we value, and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days. To center our lives around...

　　George Hawley is one of the best students of contemporary political conservativism and the Alt-Right. His recent Law Liberty piece on American Christian nationalism does not disappoint. He and I are in full agreement that “the notion that the United States is on the precipice of a fundamentalist theocracy”—as so many critics of Christian nationalism assert—is, in his word, “risible.”...