Faith and Parenthood
Children will break your heart, and they’ll give you new life. The essays below offer a little of both. And for fathers looking to develop better parenting habits, I invite you to visit Intentional Fathering, a website devoted to fathers who are trying to do better.
“Wrestling with Wrestling” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2026
“You Can Help Solve America’s Fertility Crisis” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 19, 2025
“Up From Hell: A Meditation on The Ethics of Beauty” Front Porch Republic, Sept. 2024
“A Meditation on the Children of Ulvade” Close Reading, May 27, 2022
“A Gathered Winter” Close Reading, Feb. 25, 2021
“Recitals and Other Tortures” Close Reading, Dec. 28, 2020
“A Doorstop Theory of Civilizational Decline” American Spectator, June 13, 2020
“The Thing About Ambergris” Fathom Magazine, June 10, 2020
“A Boy, a Wren, and the Kingdom” Good Letters, July 22, 2015
“The Machinery of Cowardice Fails the Children of Rotherham” Good Letters, Sept. 12, 2014
“Word for Good and Evil,” Part I and Part II Good Letters, Aug. 22-23, 2013
“Sheep & Wolves” Curator Magazine, May 1, 2013
“What is Truth?” Good Letters, Feb. 1, 2013
“In the Flesh” Comment, May 20, 2011
“The Things We Build” Comment, Oct. 1, 2010
“Ya Gotta Have (Real) Friends” Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2009
“Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho: How Can I Teach My Kids to Enjoy Work?” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 22, 2008
“Intelligence Designer” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 15, 2008
“Review: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child” Conversations on Philanthropy, Apr. 28, 2012
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