• The Problem with Jordan Peterson

    “Peterson focuses on the Cross, while ignoring the Resurrection… Peterson’s worldview, then, is not just incomplete—it’s problematic.”

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  • Letter to the Editor: Just Being Neighborly

    I thoroughly appreciated Jenna Willett’s comments on the importance of neighborliness in “Just Being Neighborly.” Her article addressed a topic to which I have given considerable thought in the past weeks. Growing up in a semi-urban neighborhood in Cincinnati, my family has seen many neighbors cycle through the houses up and down our street.

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  • Just Being Neighborly

    Do you know your neighbors? Not just their names–do you know anything about the lives of the people next door? Let us take a step back into a warm Sunday afternoon from yester-year: front doors are unlocked, neighbors are visiting on front porches, children roam the neighborhood for playmates, and everyone goes about business expecting…

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  • Driving Ourselves Insane

    As general anti-automobile sentiment spreads (though, I should note, is still far from dominant in our culture), and as my own convictions grow, it occurs to me to put down in writing what I have been ruminating upon ever since getting behind the wheel so many years ago (and which I think is something that…

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  • In The Place I Was Fated

    My generation is ungrounded, which makes for bad culture and unhealthy individuals. I propose a solution: a return to the idea of vocation of place. This means we need to dig roots into the places we have been given. We need to put home, neighborhood, and city higher on the list of factors we consider…

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  • The Man About Town

    When looking upon the dim reflections of the bygone world, we should remind ourselves that along with the beautiful art and buildings, there were also persons, who were as elevated as the beautiful towers which once crowned the skyline. As you undoubtedly know from seeing antique photographs and films, the men in these photos presented…

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Continuing the Conversation​

Editor

Children learn to form letters, phrase sentences, then to write paragraphs, then essays. In the same way, we have watched our community learn to say hello, to small talk, then to gather and bounce around ideas. But it mustn’t end there. 

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The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as ‘protectionism’ — and that is exactly what it is. It is a protectionism that is just and sound, because it protects local producers and is the best assurance of adequate supplies to local consumers. And the idea that local needs should be met first and only surpluses exported does not imply any prejudice against charity toward people in other places or trade with them. The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. And the principle of subsistence is in fact the best guarantee of giveable or marketable surpluses. This kind of protection is not ‘isolationism.”

― Wendell Berry

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