Tag Archives: Marriage
Mr. Darcy

Happy Birthday, Pride and Prejudice!

Jessica Prol: While leading man Mr. Darcy certainly is “the thinking woman’s heart-throb,” he’s more than a romance icon.

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Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of NY

The Making of a Civil Right

Connor Ewing: Saying something is a civil right is to offer a description, not to provide a justification.

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Two_Wedding_Rings

Ending the Blame Game

Yet another article on the decline of marriage misses the point: if you want people to do something, try reminding them why it’s a good idea.

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A Story of Sports and Losing Battles

You are the director of a large youth basketball league. Thousands of kids of all ages learn the game on your watch, and many go on to college and pro careers. Your organization is very successful, because – although it has a reputation for being very tough to play in – it plays by NBA […]

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Book Review (and Profligate Excerpting): Gaudy Night

In case you didn’t know already, Dorothy Sayers was brilliant. A theologian and Christian humanist in the era of the Inklings, she treated the Trinity in The Mind of the Maker and recapped the Christian tradition in Creed or Chaos?. She attended Socratic Club meetings with her friend C.S. Lewis, although his pal Tolkien apparently […]

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