Essays
Uninviting Your Inner Mr. Grinch
The holidays promise magic, warmth, and glad tidings, but only too often you hear people dreading...
What Motivates You? A Look at Root Sin
Many books, articles, and societal mantras encourage us to be ourselves. When we are ourselves, we...
Rethinking “Self-Care”
What we too often forget is:
Women are important.
Mothers are important.
Homemakers are important.
If we truly believe this, then we must believe that the rituals that sustain them are also important.
Cozy Up with These Edifying Reads
There is something intrinsically magical about the autumnal air. It is a perfect blend of the ethereal and melancholy as summer's easy-going brightness shifts into the deep, thoughtful hues of Autumn -- Nature's Passion. It is a season of change, leaving behind old...
Life is a Formal Affair
Because yes, putting extra effort into the everyday requires sacrifice. It requires responsibility. It demands discipline. It means we must possess an awareness to the needs of others. It means we have to have the integrity to say, “the world doesn’t revolve around me.”
Falling from Beauty
Intense bodily focus is heinous. It creates a separated notion of the human person — forgetting the soul, and finding all worth and importance in the carnal. The reality that our body will one day return to dust poses a problem, since eternal youthfulness wears the crown. The focus of maintaining a healthy body veers into creating a sexual body. A body worth ogling over — one that will defy death
From Summer to Fall: Best Transitional Items for Your Wardrobe
‘ It's almost September, which means the last vestiges of summer of here. It's not quite time to go full on Pumpkin Spice Latte, but rather, we find ourselves in the in-between season. Whether you are aching for the fiery hues of Autumn, or refusing to let go of...
The Lady Galadriel: Tolkien’s Response to Modern Feminism
Tolkien’s most challenging figure to the feminist narrative is that of Galadriel, the most powerful leader in Middle Earth whose greatest contribution to the defeat of the Devil was not in facing off with him herself, but in sacrificing her pride and embracing her femininity.
Embracing our Real Human Sexuality: A Redemptive Perspective on Gender and God
Those who struggle with anxiety, depression, and gender dysphoria will never find wholeness or happiness in puberty blockers or cross-sex hormone treatments and surgeries.