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Proverbs 15:13 tells us, “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance….” Two verses later, we read, “[H]e that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.” For a couple of days this week, my heart was anything but merry, and doubtless my face and demeanor matched my mood. I was in a funk brought
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“None of these young people want to work today. They’re lazy,” a friend at my favorite coffee shop recently asserted. “They’re ignorant. They don’t know a thing about history, and they never read books,” a phone friend has told me several times in conversation. “They’re all a bunch of snowflakes,” another friend said a couple
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Over 10 years ago, I began writing an autobiography of sorts on my blog based on meaningful objects in my home. These are the possessions – an ornamental sword from the long-defunct Staunton Military Academy, a slender Lladró figurine of a nurse I’d given to my wife Kris one Christmas, a large, time-battered desk she’d
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We hear much today about the “boy crisis, the “trouble with boys,” and a “war against boys.” These problems are real. The lack of father figures and male mentors, the overwhelming predominance of female teachers in the early school grades, an obsession in many cases with video games, the prejudice of both the classroom and
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