Liberals have built their current party on wide-sweeping “get out the vote” efforts for the past two decades. Even before social media became our main mode of communication, I remember concerted efforts to get young people to vote through local events, TV commercials, or blogging and email campaigns. I caught onto the game pretty quickly. Liberals thought that if they could simply get enough young, uneducated, illogical people to vote, they would win. They bet on the odds that if they could...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Imagine this... You spend a year and a half with your oldest daughter poring over websites and visiting campuses in search of the right college for her. You want a nice Christian college where she will make great friends, learn from godly professors, and grow in her faith. The admissions counselors on the campus tours are engaging and friendly. They show you shiny dorms, talk to you about Jesus and intramural sports, and even take you to chapel where students are worshiping, hands raised. It...
15 days ago • 2 min read
About a week ago, my girls and I were unloading groceries from our minivan around 5 pm. I was trying to hustle and get dinner started, so I was unprepared when a group of people walked up onto our driveway. They were a canvassing group, “Latinos for Blue” or something like that. With my children running around beside me, the gentleman in the group handed me a flyer. He told me they were out in support of Kamala Harris for president, Ruben Gallego for senate, and as he flipped to the back of...
16 days ago • 4 min read
I want to start a regular column where I do a rhetorical analysis of something I’ve read (or watched) by breaking it apart and showing why it’s in error. As I was researching for The College Guide, I stumbled upon an article written by Dr. Bryan Loritts, a prominent black pastor. The piece is called "On Color-blindness: A Quick Response to a Well-Intentioned White Brother." Dr. Loritts's ethnicity is important only because he says the color of his skin is “a significant part” of who he is and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
A few years ago, I went with my kids to tour a K-12 Christian school that we were considering for our family. I struck up a conversation with the principal and accidentally got myself a job offer to teach Honors/Dual Enrollment English in the high school while my girls patiently played with legos in the corner of the office. I had been out of the high school classroom for over a decade at this point, but I liked the principal and the other English teachers at this school and agreed to sit in...
5 months ago • 9 min read
Despite growing up in the church, attending a Christian school, and spending a decent amount of my young adult life studying the Bible, I arrived at marriage with the general assumption that I would and could have babies. Never mind the plight of Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Hannah, or Elizabeth, who endured years, if not decades, of grief in their barrenness. The concept of infertility was a vague idea in my mind. I knew it existed but I didn’t know anyone close to me who had suffered through its...
8 months ago • 9 min read
Gentle Parenting, whether or not it always goes by that title, has taken our culture by storm. Millennial moms who are now raising the majority of today’s 0 to 10-year-olds want to parent in a way that is empathetic and positive, with a strong focus on the developing feelings of their children. None of that is wrong, at least on the surface, but the aftermath of this parenting style is often anything but positive. The distinctions between various parenting styles are often blurry, but here is...
9 months ago • 5 min read
2019. Sometimes I think back to that year and my heart physically hurts. The perfect fall trip to Chicago with my best friends. The matching winter coats I picked out for my girls to spend Christmas in Washington. Diletta was in my belly then; now she wears the size 3-4, a hand-me-down from her older sister. I always know if it’s a photo from 2019 by the length of my hair. It’s never been that long since. I don’t know if it’s post-Covid hair loss, postpartum hair loss, or post-30s hair loss,...
9 months ago • 2 min read
We had a guest speaker at my university last week. He was invited to train our faculty on integrating our teaching with biblical truth more richly and comprehensively. His presentations were excellent, but at one point, he put up a slide that my heart palpitate a bit. He showed us data from a recent large Pew survey that asked the question, “What do Americans count as religious extremism?” The survey described different actions an evangelical might take (for example, trying to convert...
10 months ago • 3 min read