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  • Beware Mama Bears

    Beware Mama Bears5

    The Presbyterian church where I once taught homeschoolers was located in a suburban neighborhood of Asheville filled with medium-sized houses and well-tended yards. And with its broad lawn and surrounding woods, the church was a place of tranquility. Except when the bears decided to pay a visit. Black bears roam much of western North Carolina,

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  • How to Prepare for a Recession

    How to Prepare for a Recession9

    Are we in a recession? The price of gas and food seem likely to continue spiraling upward. So what happens if we’re smacked with more food shortages or massive unemployment? Larry Alton offers some excellent advice for keeping ourselves afloat in case of recession—or worse, a severe economic depression, a recent article for American Thinker.

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  • A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own

    A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own4

    A teacher who was also a poet once explained to me the meaning of a “found poem.” It’s a poem that takes its words and lines from sources outside the poet: newspaper headlines, advertisements, the outdoor message boards found in front of churches, an overheard conversation, even graffiti. Just this morning, I came across a

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  • A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness

    A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness9

    On a mid-October visit with my daughter and her family, my son-in-law began recounting stories from a former construction job. He spoke of end-of-day contests—monkey-bar style races, for example, in which construction workers would race across the trusses of a building using hammers instead of the hands, which lasted until one guy slipped and concussed

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