Political communities can offer embodied relationships, but abstract political participation cannot reciprocate love.

Modern Americans removed death from ordinary domestic life, turning the room where bodies were…

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Knowing someone once meant knowing their favorite food. Now it often means knowing what they…

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Politics can absorb a person’s vocational life, but politics cannot love anyone back.

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A church beside a graveyard makes death harder to sentimentalize and mortality harder to avoid.

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Every login, wager, purchase, and effort promises relief from inadequacy. The cycle keeps…

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Secular ideologies become laws of justification: eat, vote, or love correctly enough, and perhaps…

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Churches and Alcoholics Anonymous offer community, identity, and service instead of another…

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Parenting becomes idolatrous when a child’s performance carries the parent’s self-worth, turning…

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