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Time to Give the Hook to Preferred Pronouns
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 3, 2025
A year ago, had you stood in front of Mountain Inn and Suites on the outskirts of Erwin, Tenn., to your left you would have seen four or five small businesses and some storage units, flanked by a Baptist church. To your right would be a Mexican restaurant, Panchos & Amigos, joined to a convenience
READ MORERecently a friend with stellar taste in literature was taken aback when she learned I’d never read any of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” books. In my parenting days, my daughter and her Atlanta cousin both devoured as many of these stories as they could get their hands on, and two of my granddaughters,
READ MOREThe above words were the theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize address. Early in this speech he said, “And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”
READ MOREThe recent August school shooting during a Catholic Mass in Minneapolis prompted public arguments about the efficacy of prayer. For example, former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki and current Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt exchanged some heated remarks on prayers offered up for the victims of the shooting. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” Psaki tweeted. “Enough with the
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