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Some Things To Consider Before Going ‘No Contact’0
“Ephphatha,” the priest explained during the recent baptism of a grandson, is Aramaic for “Be opened.” The word occurs in Mark 7:33-34, where some people in a crowd brought a deaf man with a speech impediment to Jesus for healing. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and
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A Voyage to Nowhere: The Decline of American Culture0
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Western Civilization
- August 10, 2026
In Paul Clayton’s collection of short stories, “Seeing Sunny Again,” we meet Carl Melcher. It’s the early 1960s, and Carl, who will enter high school in a week or so, has spent the summer hanging out on a beach longing without success to find a girlfriend. On this particular evening, he decides to try his
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The Benefits of Memorization in the Age of AI0
In 2014, I was a prompter for a local homeschool poetry festival. With copies of all the poems to be recited, from pre-K kids to highschoolers, I sat in the front row, ready to provide a word or a line from the poem if someone on stage lost their train of thought. That evening, I
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Reviving the Personal Touch0
This summer I once again drove six hours one-way for a physical with my doctor. For years, four of his six children were in my homeschooling seminars, taking courses like composition, Latin, literature, and history, all the way to the AP level. He was my youngest son’s basketball coach and a major mentor in his
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A Princeton Classicist Offers 5 Ways to Turn Children Into Book Lovers
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- October 12, 2026
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The Christian Quote that Everyone Takes out of Context
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- November 13, 2018
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Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?
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- October 10, 2016
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