Jeff Minick

Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Aug. 14–20

How Americans stayed cool before air conditioning.

Author Noelle Mering explores the cultural shift driving adult children to cut off their parents—and offers a roadmap toward healing and restoration.

In the Introduction to her new book, “No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them” (Forum Books, September 8, 2026, 288 pages), cultural commentator, author and mother of six Noelle Mering writes, “If you are in the situation of having had to cut contact over an abusive relationship, this phenomenon and this book aren’t about you.”

The reading of Ephesians 5 in church, the part about husbands and wives, always amuses me.

Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Aug. 21–27

This installment of ‘When Character Counted’ looks at adventurer who captured the American imagination in the first half of the 20th century.

This installment of ‘When Character Counts’ brings us a soldier whose battlefield heroism seems more the stuff of myth than reality.

Nostalgia derives from the Greek words “algos,” meaning grief or pain, and “nostos,” homecoming. In centuries past, physicians considered nostalgia a disease.

With today’s students struggling in reading, vocabulary, and comprehension, it is time to address this issue before it’s too late.