Icons Dolly Parton and Wendell Berry passed away the same week, and left behind a lesson in building common ground.

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir spent three nights camping together in Yosemite and, despite disagreeing about much, came away with a model for finding common ground that we, as a divided nation, must remember.

Clapham Staff’s media recommendations for the 2026 summer season.

Two statues standing near each other in Freedom Plaza, a Founding Father and the enslaved soldier who helped row Washington across the Delaware, prompt a reflection on why America needs a shared, honest story of its founding, true enough for a divided country to gather around together.

George Washington's Farewell Address, in full, published in honor of America's 250th, with a few passages that stuck out to the Clapham staff.

Toy Story 5 is Pixar's most quietly serious film in years: a stirring defense of present fathers, embodied play, and the imaginative life of children in an age of "always listening" screens.

A Father’s Day reflection on what defines fatherhood: quiet, self-sacrificial love a man offers to the mother of his child and to the next generation.

Booed commencement speakers, phone-free hangouts, record Broadway attendance; the most digitally saturated generation in history is staging a counter-reaction, and what it reveals is not a trend but a deep human hunger reasserting itself.

When faith is excluded from public life, the vacuum doesn't stay empty—and whether what fills it is generous and pluralistic or reactive and coercive depends on choices we still have time to make.

Motherhood asks us to lay down our lives for our children before we even know them. But while Jesus was called to die for the sake of humanity, mothers are called to live and raise their children. This Mother’s Day, let’s make sure every mom can live to celebrate with her family.

Making goodness fashionable again may be the most subversive act available to us, repairing the broken windows of our language before the coarsening of our public discourse becomes the only standard our children know.

A tribute to the late Dr. John M. Perkins — and an introduction to Salt and Light Songs, a new series pairing musicians with the stories that inspired them.

A Disney cruise line advertisement and the 'broken windows' theory illuminate why virtue modeling — not virtue signaling — is how culture should be shaped and transmitted.

As AI floods our world with infinite content, something irreplaceable is calling us back to embodied, live, and unrepeatable human experiences.

In a time of social fragmentation, the marriage that took place during this year’s Super Bowl showed how public virtue can inspire communities and strengthen families.

As America nears its 250th anniversary, our growing cultural and political fractures, symbolized by a divided Super Bowl halftime, threaten the shared experiences that bind us together. Considering the upcoming halftime performance, Principal Mark Rodgers encourages fostering common ground by choosing unity without uniformity.

Mark Rodgers invites readers into three storytelling projects from MORE Productions that carry forward the Clapham tradition of sharing creative capital to bear witness to faith and the common good.

Mark Rodgers reflects on Johnny Cash and rural decline, arguing that rebuilding social capital—through family and shared cultural meaning—is essential for renewed flourishing.

Clapham Staff’s media recommendations for the 2025 holiday season.

Mark Rodgers and Sarah Robinson reflect on how holidays highlight the everyday strain of polarization, and argue that rebuilding social capital—through curiosity, humility, courage, and bridge-building at home—is essential for shared flourishing.