Loneliness. Craziness. Bitterness. So often Christmas gives us "gifts" like these — gifts that we don’t want, but find hard to get rid of. And year after year we hang on to them, never realizing that we can actually exchange them for better...

We live in a culture with key missing ingredients: truth, kindness, and honor. The sad thing is that we have become accustomed to it, as if it is the new normal. We twist the truth about others and ourselves. We talk down on people as if they didn’t...