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  • Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run

    Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run0

    I was taken aback at the headlining article on ESPN this weekend. It wasn’t about kneeling football players. Instead, one might say it was about a kneeling basketball player: Shelly Pennefather. Pennefather, a former All-American player for Villanova, turned down a professional basketball career to join the cloistered convent of the Poor Clares. ESPN captured

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  • Breaking Free From the Language of Our Opponents

    Breaking Free From the Language of Our Opponents2

    What is the purpose of the American conservative movement? Our society continues its decades-long leftward slide, and the liberal ruling class moves ever closer toward complete control of our institutions. Yet the right, with a few exceptions, doesn’t seem to have a strong or unified plan for fighting back. Worse, many supposed conservatives are themselves

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  • Breaking Free From the Epidemic of Listless School Children

    Breaking Free From the Epidemic of Listless School Children0

    My neighbors, intrepidly homeschooling since the arrival of COVID, came to my door the other day and dropped off a craft they made as part of their studies on a certain mammal. Given the subject of the craft, it was clear they were exploring things their children were interested in, asking questions about, and seeking

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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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