“Each person acquires their own character, but their official roles are designated by chance. You should invite some to your table because they are deserving, others because they may come to deserve it.”— Seneca, Moral Letters, 47.15b In today’s world, success often...

Commonly attributed to Marcus Aurelius. Whether or not the exact phrasing appears in Meditations, the idea is undeniably Stoic: strength is measured by our relationship to reality; weakness by our avoidance of it. We live in an age that confuses volume for strength....

We live in a time when the role of men is being redefined, challenged, and in some cases, altogether dismissed. The world often tells us masculinity is dangerous, that fatherhood is optional, and that traditional values are outdated. But I believe, now more than ever,...

Sometimes the greatest lessons about integrity come not from our enemies, but from watching those we trust navigate their own moral contradictions. There's a peculiar kind of education that happens in midlife—one that arrives not through books or formal instruction,...

I sit in the back pew, watching tearful children approach the podium. Their voices crack as they share stories of Sunday morning pancakes, bedtime stories that stretched past midnight, and the way their grandfather's eyes lit up when they scored their first goal. They...