Almost everyone agrees that becoming more loving is good, but how do we put that into action? That’s what virtue is all about….

Staying connected is a good thing. But I let myself get connected to the wrong things this week and woke up this morning…

David Brooks, columnist and author of The Road to Character, gave the commencement speech at Dartmouth this year. It’s worth reading or…

“Make haste slowly” is the ancient Roman way of saying, “You’ll get more done if you stop running around like a crazy…

In her poem, The Land, Vita Sackville-West wrote that “June is the month of weeds.” As we’re removing plants that take away…

I took a walk today in the local park. A bearded man and his tee-shirted wife walked toward me in conversation. As…

In Alaska, they say that if you’re not the lead sled dog, the view’s always the same. Commuters often feel that way,…

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit first appear in Isaiah 11:2-3. They’re the gifts God offers us that make us more…

We have a lot more tools for growing in virtue than our great-grandparents did. One new-fangled tool is knowledge of how brain…

My brother-in-law, Tom, emailed the family a memorable example of the meekness (the virtue that moderates anger) and love of his mother,…