Society

For the Love of Critters

If you’re an animal lover like me, you know there’s a lot more to like about animals besides the fact that some of them are tasty. “Animals are such agreeable friends,” wrote the English poet and novelist George Eliot. “They ask no questions,…

America’s Great Heritage: Civil Society

“Taxation,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, “is the price we pay for civilization.” But a much better case can be made that taxation is the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of themselves, their families, and…

Ruth Chou Simons on Anxiety

By The Stream Published on October 30, 2025 In this 27-minute video, “The Way of the Wildflower” author Ruth Chou Simons explores how faith transforms our experience of anxiety during a conversation with Faith Womack. Simons shares how trusting…

A Better You, a Better World

If you were to choose today the epitaph that will appear on your headstone after you’re gone, which one from these two lists would you pick? Or perhaps the better question is, which one most accurately describes you? List A “He said it but…