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  • Bureaucracy Doesn’t Allow Courage

    Bureaucracy Doesn’t Allow Courage11

    The tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, has shifted dramatically in the last few days from the horror of young lives needlessly snuffed out by a gunman, to the horror of why more wasn’t done to save them. Finger-pointing and blaming abound, particularly toward the police who responded to the shooting. Video footage and firsthand accounts have

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  • Bullying Video Goes Viral Days after U.S. City Votes to Fine Parents for Child Bullying

    Bullying Video Goes Viral Days after U.S. City Votes to Fine Parents for Child Bullying0

    The city council of Shawano, Wisconsin, recently passed an ordinance that will allow the city to fine parents whose children are caught exhibiting “bullying behavior.” Via Fox59 Indianapolis: Under the new ordinance, parents will be warned if police determine their child bullied another child. Parents have 90 days to address their child’s behavior. If their child

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  • Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-19

    Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-190

    As we are all presently discovering, there are inherent risks built into the industrialized food system with its just-in-time delivery. In the last 150 years we have migrated away from growing our own food to relying on distant production facilities and long supply chains. This arrangement is highly efficient and profitable when times are good.

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  • Building Walls for Protection is Not Immoral or Unchristian

    Building Walls for Protection is Not Immoral or Unchristian0

    The building of walls has been very much in the news over the past week or so. There is, of course, the famous or infamous wall that President Elect Trump has promised to build along the Mexican border. And then there are the recent comments by Pope Francis, seen as a thinly-veiled intervention by the

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  • Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’

    Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’3

    Often, we want quick fixes. We live in the tyranny of the present moment, and it’s hard for us to take a long-term view of history and our own moment within it. Most things take time—especially good things, like restorations and healing and growth. But we become impatient. We want results now. We lose hope.

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  • Building an America We Are Proud Of

    Building an America We Are Proud Of1

    R.C. Sherriff, the late English writer, had a talent for depicting the mundane in a way that celebrated life. His writing, characterized by an understated style, provides a deep understanding of human nature. In his 1931 novel, The Fortnight In September, he tells the story of a lower-middle-class family taking their annual holiday at a

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