The odd mix of anonymity and profundity in the Nativity story may point to the real meaning of “keeping Christmas well.”

Just as the purposeful, or teleological, hierarchy disaggregates down to the building blocks of Creation, so does the consequential, or nomological, hierarchy aggregate in the other direction.

As God’s experience of Himself diverges within the Multiverse, lesser beings emerge, with free will and the aptitude for evil.

Beginning to put structure to a flood of ideas starts with the most fundamental reality: the Idea.

Our lives can be sacred and meaningful while we are not suffering, and by the same rule, when we make our lives sacred and meaningful, we are also less apt to see suffering as suffering when it comes.

Our experts are experts, but they neglect the limits of their expertise in order to keep pace with progressive politicians drawn toward the gravity of total control.

Remembering transcendent reality means having the courage to face the storm that plainly speaking the truth can raise in turbulent times because we are not truly at risk of perishing, at least in the sense that matters.

Bari Weiss is right to join with ideological opponents to fight for the right to disagree, but she should recognize the role an issue close to her heart, same-sex marriage, played in our loss of that right.

Whether the logical consequences of a decision are, in fact, inevitable or are only apt to create a sort of momentum, it behooves us to make decisions with a full understanding of their implications.

Among other lessons, the coronavirus pandemic is teaching us that a deeper illness than COVID-19 has settled upon our civilization.