Articles by Timothy Goeglein

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Reject the Woke Rewriting: The Pilgrims Aren’t Villains

Timothy Goeglein | November 26, 2025

In a recent interview on Fox News, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch remarked, “We need to know our history in order to preserve it.” As… Read More

SocietyCommentary

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Reversing a Decades’ Long Trend, Men Are Returning to Church

Timothy Goeglein | November 02, 2025

For the past several decades, church attendance has become an increasingly female-oriented activity. Church leaders have either given into that fact and no longer try… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Two teen boys in black sweatshirts sit on brown chairs, oblivious to each other while staring at their smartphones.

Teens, Screens, and the Unfolding Mental Health Crisis

Timothy Goeglein | October 02, 2025

It is becoming increasingly evident that smartphones—and the social media that comes with them—are resulting in alarming rates of depression and other detrimental behaviors among… Read More

EducationCommentary

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Another Year, Another Depressing Report on the State of American Education

Timothy Goeglein | September 17, 2025

Another year has come and gone, and America’s educational death spiral continues. The most recent numbers from The Nation’s Report Card, put out by the National Assessment… Read More

SocietyCommentary

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When It Comes to Marriage, Faith Matters

Timothy Goeglein | July 07, 2025

Focus on the Family recently surveyed more than 3,800 Americans on how faith impacts personal decisions about marriage and recorded married respondents’ self-assessments of their… Read More

SocietyCommentary

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Religion Without Faith Will Never Bring Fulfillment

Timothy Goeglein | June 07, 2025

In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and… Read More

EducationCommentary

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How Family Structure Leads to Academic Success

Timothy Goeglein | May 04, 2025

In 1965, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: “The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily… Read More

SocietyCommentary

William F. Buckley Stamp is Fitting Tribute

Timothy Goeglein | March 24, 2025

Conservatives have a rare reason to cheer the United States Postal Service: It is releasing a stamp in honor of one of the godfathers of American conservatism, William F…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Cohabitation Is Not Just an Urban Problem Anymore

Timothy Goeglein | March 01, 2025

When we think about rural communities, we tend to conjure up images of faith, large families, friendly neighbors, and conservative values—the exact opposite of the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

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One Reason Why Young People Are Delaying Marriage and What You Can Do About It

Timothy Goeglein | January 09, 2025

Why are so many Americans waiting so long to get married? One-third of young adults will likely never marry, according to recent research. Lyman Stone,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

‘Stumbling Toward Utopia’: How the 1960s Took a Wrecking Ball to American Family

Timothy Goeglein | September 19, 2024

Up until the 1960s, the traditional nuclear family—one man, one woman, and at least one child—was seen as the societal ideal. But in the 1960s,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Presidents, Power, Faith, and the Boardroom

Timothy Goeglein | August 14, 2024

I’ve spent a lifetime trying to better discern Jesus’ great parable on the organic tension between God and mammon. I am always smitten with Jesus’ admonition… Read More

Health CareCommentary

Why Connections Are Good for the Brain and the Soul

Timothy Goeglein | June 17, 2024

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today, were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of… Read More

SocietyCommentary

A Celebrated Atheist’s Surprising Revelation on Christianity

Timothy Goeglein | April 17, 2024

For decades, avowed atheist Richard Dawkins has built a small industry attacking biblical Christianity and Christians, authoring books such as “The God Delusion.” That’s why so… Read More

LawCommentary

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets a Postage Stamp; Why Doesn’t Antonin Scalia?

Timothy Goeglein | September 19, 2023

The opening of this year’s Supreme Court term on the first Monday of October will mark the release of a new Forever stamp featuring the late… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why a Connected Life Via Marriage, Family Is a Happier Life

Timothy Goeglein | October 28, 2022

My colleague Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, wrote the following in his book “Marriage Done Right: One Man, One Woman”: “[Marriage] is… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Reflections on Calm Before Storm of 9/11—and Peace of Providence After

Timothy Goeglein | September 09, 2022

Sept. 11, 2001, dawned in Washington as the most beautiful day of that year and one of the most beautiful days I have ever experienced…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

God Still Isn’t Dead

Timothy Goeglein | August 16, 2022

The cover of Time magazine dated April 8, 1966, asked readers: “Is God Dead?” In the 56 years since, so-called experts have proclaimed the impending… Read More

SocietyCommentary

For Gen Z, One Is the Loneliest Number

Timothy Goeglein | April 29, 2022

In his book “Loneliness,” University of Chicago professor John Cacioppo wrote that negative risks of living alone are far worse than air pollution or obesity…. Read More

EducationCommentary

‘God and Man at Yale’ Turns 70

Timothy Goeglein | March 14, 2022

Last year, in the midst of all the COVID-19 chaos, it was easy to miss a major milestone in the history of American conservatism and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

New Study Confirms What Women Seek in Good Provider

Timothy Goeglein | October 20, 2021

Nearly three years ago, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made the following statement: “Study after study has shown that when men make less than women, women generally… Read More

SocietyCommentary

America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion

Timothy Goeglein | October 22, 2020

A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center came out with its most recent survey on the faith of today’s teenagers. While there are a… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How Attacks on Faith, Family, and Conscience Threaten All Our Freedoms

Timothy Goeglein | August 06, 2020

During these tumultuous times, as practically every American institution comes under attack from the far left and its allies, two of our most essential values… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Gertrude Himmelfarb passed away at the age of 97

Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb, a Voice of Moral Clarity in a Time of Moral Confusion

Timothy Goeglein | January 07, 2020

America has lost a voice that strongly and consistently provided the road map to steer us away from the political and cultural abyss we currently… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why Faith Is Key to Preserving Our Liberty

Timothy Goeglein | October 23, 2019

Attorney General William Barr gave an extraordinary speech at Notre Dame Law School last week, providing one of the most robust defenses of religious freedom… Read More

InternationalCommentary

How World War I Changed America, 100 Years On

Timothy Goeglein | April 06, 2017

One hundred years ago today, April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The Great War’s centennial is especially poignant because of the… Read More

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