Current Events
Loosening the College Board's grip on higher ed
Classical-Christian education is helping break up the College Board's monopoly on standardized testing and its grip on higher ed.
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AmFest 2025
Turning Point's first America Fest without Charlie Kirk drew record-breaking crowds — a testament to his enduring legacy of faith, freedom, and the courage to live boldly.
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Illinois Homeschool Act
As the Trump administration moves to loosen Washington's grip on K-12 education, Illinois Democrats are pushing a bill that would criminalize homeschooling parents and bring private schools under state control.
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The Last Supper: Exemplum Christi
The Paris Olympics' mockery of Leonardo's Last Supper scorned billions of believers and the foundations of Western Civilization — but it also exposed the desperation of forces bent on erasing our history.
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Summer Reading
Three essential reads for the season: a life-changing book on metabolic health, a defense of free speech in an age of rage, and a manual for Christian dissidents facing soft totalitarianism.
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Biden’s Dangerous Overhaul of Title IX
Biden's 1,500-page rewrite of Title IX replaces biological sex with gender identity, stripping women of privacy, safety, and fair competition — and igniting a nationwide wave of lawsuits and defiance.
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News You Can Use: Summer 2024 Edition
From leaked WPATH files exposing reckless gender procedures on minors to Douglas Murray's stirring defense of Israel, here are the stories and voices worth your attention this summer.
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U.S. Pediatricians: Harmful Transgender Interventions Must Stop
The American College of Pediatricians is challenging the forced consensus on transgender interventions for children — a long-overdue stand against procedures that cause immeasurable harm.
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AmFest 2023
My son and I spent four inspiring days at America Fest in Phoenix, hearing from the best and brightest thinkers — from Tucker Carlson to Yeonmi Park — and left encouraged about the country's future.
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News You Can Use: January 2024 Edition
Launching a new feature to spotlight the stories and voices that matter — from Victor Davis Hanson on America's cultural collapse to a former Israeli hostage's harrowing account of captivity.
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Israel vs. Hamas: Moms on a Mission Podcast
I returned to the Moms on a Mission podcast to discuss Hamas's propaganda machine, the horrific war crimes of October 7, and why calls for a ceasefire miss the mark.
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Classical Christmas Reflections
From Malcolm Guite's poetry to Van Honthorst's luminous Nativity to Dickens's divine ghost tale, the best of Advent invites us to encounter the mystery of the incarnation through literature, art, and music.
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The Legacy of 9/11
Twenty-two years after 9/11, the firefighters' courage endures as an intended legacy — but the expansion of an American police state and an irresponsible press threaten the freedoms those heroes died to defend.
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Moms on a Mission Podcast
I joined Miriam Shaw on the Moms on a Mission podcast to discuss my journalism career, the state of the Fourth Estate, and why classical-Christian education matters more than ever.
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The Sound of Freedom
The Sound of Freedom has shattered box-office expectations and drawn fierce opposition from elites — but the facts behind child sex trafficking are impossible to dismiss.
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Chicago on My Mind
After thirty years in Chicagoland, our family left — driven by soaring crime, anti-family policies, and a state that seems intent on making things worse.
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Reflections on 9/11
A visit to the Flight 93 Memorial stirs reflections on the consonance and dissonance of September 11 — and the courage our country desperately needs today.
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Blue September: Twenty Years After 9/11
Two decades after 9/11, the crystalline blue sky of that September morning remains seared in memory — a backdrop to senseless horror, uncommon courage, and a nation's reckoning with freedom's fragility.
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Our Anchor, Our Hope: Why Classical-Christian Education Makes All the Difference
Classical-Christian education is more than a schooling model — it's an anchor for the soul, equipping children with virtue, deep thinking, and an unshakable foundation in Christ.
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For the Love of New York
From my first forty-eight hours in Manhattan to covering Ground Zero after 9/11, New York has always pulled at my heart. Now, as a pandemic empties its streets, the city's spirit endures.
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Monday Quote: On Doing What We Can't
Wading into fiction after twenty years of journalism is freeing and daunting. During this pandemic season, may we push beyond our comfort zones and make ourselves good at something new.
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Friday Fact: Amazon, Soon-to-Be King of U.S. Publishing
Amazon controls over 80 percent of ebook sales, and alarmingly little stands in the way of it controlling the entire book industry. What does that mean for authors?
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Friday Fact: On Publishing Books
Thirty years ago, there were half a million books on the market. Today, a new book may compete against fifteen million titles.
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Friday Fact: For the Love of Michelangelo
The Pieta was the only work Michelangelo ever signed — and he carved it from a perfect block of marble before he turned thirty.
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Friday Fact: For the Love of Chocolate
In 1659, Louis XIV granted the first known chocolatier in history the right to make and sell chocolate. Where might we be without the Sun King?
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Friday Fact: The Day the World Came to Town
After 9/11, a pharmacist in Gander, Newfoundland, worked forty-two hours straight to fill stranded passengers' prescriptions — all at no cost.
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(Re)writing History
My grandmother fled war-torn Greece as a girl, only to have her dreams of college dashed by an arranged marriage. One day, I hope to tell her story.
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From the Ground Up: Remembering 9/11
On the morning of September 11, I was a Washingtonian living ten minutes from the Pentagon. The crystalline blue sky that day became illustrative of humanity's starkest contrasts.
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How Do U.S. Schools Help International Students Launch Their Futures?
From Mount Holyoke to the University of Dayton, U.S. colleges are going to great lengths to help international students launch careers — even as the climate for graduates from abroad grows trickier than ever.
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Why Classical-Christian Schooling?
A disappointing experience with our public school led us to classical-Christian education, where grammar, logic, and rhetoric shape our children's minds — and their faith anchors the whole endeavor.
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How Journalism Can Defuse the Shame of Mental Illness
When Vogue magazine covers postpartum anxiety, it's progress. In a world frequently ashamed of mental illness, our words carry great weight — powerful enough to defuse the shame.
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Finding God in My Postpartum Fire
A complicated birth, dark intrusive thoughts, and the absence of my mom hurled me into a postpartum furnace — but like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, I was not alone in the fire.
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Home for Christmas
Chicago is my home — not because I was born here, but because it shaped me. At Christmastime, the city glows at least five times brighter, and there is no place I would rather be.
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Vancouver the Beautiful
Ten days unplugged in British Columbia reminded me that stepping away from the noise is how we find our way back to the streams of creativity.
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You Can Go Home Again
A trip to Philadelphia to promote my book brought me back to the high-intensity rhythm of the East Coast — and to the graves of founding fathers who first pulled mental illness from the fringes.
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When Postpartum Packs a Punch
Parenthood is paradox from the beginning — miraculous and grueling. When postpartum illness strikes, story and shared suffering become our most powerful antidotes.
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Strasbourg Cathedral de Notre-Dame
Everything about Strasbourg's gothic cathedral draws the eye up — its light, its ancient expressions, its reminder that God is the source of all creativity.
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Nice vs. Antibes: Where's the Better View?
Stormy Antibes and sun-drenched Nice each offer their own shade of Mediterranean beauty — one cast in constant motion, the other in an edge-of-the-world calm.
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The Marvel of Mont Saint-Michel
A dream on a hill in Normandy, Mont Saint-Michel has drawn pilgrims and monks for over a thousand years. The moment you step onto its tide-washed land, you feel the divine appointment of it all.
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Streetside, Paris
All of Paris is art — from the symmetrical bliss of its streets to the scent of perfume, Vespa fumes, and crepes. If you have air in your lungs, this city will inspire you.
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A Month in France
France has such a distinct sense of place that when I leave, I miss it — its reverence for food, its tradition over profit, and the bedrock principles that no act of terror can snuff out.
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On Being a Mom Without a Mom
Motherless mothering is its own wilderness. Without my mom's roadmap, I've had to define motherhood for myself — and teach my children about a grandmother they'll never know.
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What the Living Can Learn From the Dying
Kara Tippetts dared to call breast cancer a 'great story' — and in doing so, she flew in the face of every fear I've harbored since my mom's death.
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Beating Breast Cancer, Step by Step
Walking 39 miles against breast cancer reminded me that we're not powerless in this fight — and that stress, the quiet killer, deserves far more attention.
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What 40 Feels Like
Turning 40 was supposed to be a milestone I shared with my brother. Instead it's a bittersweet passage through deep sorrow and muted joy.
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I Don't Want to Have it All. I Just Want Variety.
I don't want to have it all. I just want variety — and the wisdom to find happiness in that way station between too little and too much.
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An Icon of the True
At the Writing for the Soul conference, I was reminded that before I can create anything, I must first acknowledge that I too was created — and that the time to write is now.
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Feeling Guilty for What I'm Not
Motherhood has a way of magnifying every inadequacy. I'm learning to celebrate the gifts God gave me instead of drowning in guilt over the woman I'm not.
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Raising Children is Like Writing Stories
A day of field reporting reminded me how much I love journalism — and revealed that the skills of chasing a story aren't so different from the work of raising children.
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I Write, Therefore I Am
Writing is how I make sense of the world, and the pain of my son's traumatic birth is what set me on a new path — using journalism to honor God and help other women through motherhood's hardest seasons.
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The World, and Not Enough Time
A press secretary and mother of two young girls shares the daily struggle of being perpetually on call — at work and at home — and wishing for more time to simply enjoy her children.
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Marriage, Interrupted?
After 13 years at home with four children, my cousin Laura has found that the biggest emotional hurdle of stay-at-home motherhood isn't identity — it's the strain on her marriage.
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From Full-Time Corporate Lawyer to Full-Time Mom
When my friend Laura left her high-powered law career to stay home, she lost the identity she'd spent years building — and discovered a richer, more expansive definition of herself.
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Work, Guilt, and Feeling Like a 'Real Mom'
A full-time teacher and mother of two reflects on the guilt that shadows every school event she misses — and how volunteering in her sons' classrooms is the only time she feels like a real mom.
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Modern Motherhood: Is Freedom its Own Trap?
A highly educated generation of mothers has more choices than ever — and more stress. The emerging wisdom: you can have it all, just not all at once.
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A Conversation with Jerry Jenkins
Best-selling author Jerry Jenkins reminded our writing group that a good book idea can ripen with age, that family comes first, and that great writers never stop learning.
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An Emotional Walk of Faith
The identity shift from career woman to new mother felt like a door slamming shut on my old life. It took time — and faith — to discover that where I was didn't have to define who I am.
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Staying Smart About Online Learning
As online learning surges into K-12 classrooms, parents and educators must weigh its promise against the irreplaceable social skills children develop face to face.
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