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  • Breaking Bread Together: Community Begins With Simple Acts

    Breaking Bread Together: Community Begins With Simple Acts0

    It was Christmas dinnertime in Pittsburgh, and the four of us singleton 50-something guys and a 30-something couple were standing in a circle, hands joined, in a former rectory’s kitchen. Humans were made to crave community connections. But despite more government spending on social programs each year, we’re increasingly isolated; some even say we’re facing

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  • Breaking Bad: The Church and Social Justice

    Breaking Bad: The Church and Social Justice0

    Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. A Sunday School teacher at the Methodist church in Boonville, North Carolina taught my class this song in the late 1950s, when our state,

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  • Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence

    Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence0

    If your New Year’s resolutions include breaking a bad habit, the odds are stacked against you. According to habits expert James Clear, “depending on where you get your numbers, somewhere between 81 percent and 92 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail.” I won’t promise you a simple fix to break a habit. I do want to

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  • Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech

    Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech0

    Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. Breaking up the monopolies on speech might save us—particularly anyone right-of-center—from encroaching online deplatforming, and preserve our ability to hear ideas outside echo chambers of bullied consensus. The First Amendment doesn’t restrain censorship

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  • Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience

    Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience3

    In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service. They were there for the most popular

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  • Breadwinning Begins Before the Wedding

    Breadwinning Begins Before the Wedding8

    At the center of traditionalism is the nuclear family. I have yet to meet a traditionalist who doesn’t desire to have a family centered on the timeless values of husband and wife with children. The husband/father shoulders breadwinning, and the wife/mother stays home with the children. My own family is structured this way, and I

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