Samantha Schroeder

Samantha Schroeder

Samantha Schroeder is a freelance writer working for a foreign policy organization in Washington, D.C.

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Articles


The Nature of Love

April 14, 2015

Love is a reverent appreciation of the other’s being as such, a response to the transcendent value of another person in terms of herself as a thou, in full light of her personhood.


On Loneness and Loneliness

March 17, 2015

Women set the standard by which men are to treat them. It is only through becoming fully present in our seasons of loneness and solitude will we discover our true self.


Courtship and Compromise

February 12, 2015

Courtship as a Christian is a discernment process in which we seek the one to whom we eventually offer a full sacrifice of self. When God is our autopilot, we’ll arrive on time, exactly where we were meant to be.


Feminist Personalism

November 17, 2014

The feminist movement is dedicated to deconstructing essentials and to revising tradition to make room for change. This is not philosophy; it’s propaganda.


The Role of Beauty in Love

November 4, 2014

In love, one does not respond to a particular stirring of a singular feature of the beloved—Cleopatra’s nose, Marie Antoinette’s breast—but a totality of the features of the other that transcends the visible and audible.


The West: God’s Graveyard?

October 22, 2014

It is the individual, the atom of society, who is the centerpiece of civilization after the death of God is proclaimed. We have missed the forest of the family for the singular tree of the individual.


The Inhumanity of Marrying Up

October 9, 2014

Perhaps, for the sake of preserving the institution of marriage, we should begin to give virtue—charity, chastity, humility, honesty—the pride of place it deserves.