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  • ‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos

    ‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos0

    “In the beginning was the Word.” So begins John’s Gospel. In the original Greek, “Word” is logos, a word meaning precise, reasoned speech that brings order out of chaos. Jordan Peterson calls it “the articulated truth.” English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge calls it “communicative intelligence.” According to Christianity, Jesus, who claimed not just to speak

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  • ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’

    ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’0

    Get out the Doritos. Pop the top on your Bud Light. Go down to your man cave, plop down on your La-Z-Boy, invite your friends over and turn on the Packers game. Here come the White people. CNN commentator Van Jones, clearly upset by the results coming in last night, claimed that Democrats got “White-lashed.”

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  • ‘Wild Skepticism’ has Run its Course

    ‘Wild Skepticism’ has Run its Course0

    It’s not hard to find or be exposed to thoughts and opinions that reflect the deeper intellectual chaos of our times. If one senses the fog created when rational thought is taken to absurd extremes, the passage below from G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy will probably resonate. If not, then the passage will probably make little sense and

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  • ‘Where Do We Get Such Men?’

    ‘Where Do We Get Such Men?’0

    In The Bridges At Toko-ri, the film based on James Michener’s novel about carrier pilots in the Korean War, Admiral George Tarrant watches as his pilots take off from the pitching deck to engage the enemy and asks, “Where do we get such men?” His question was relevant then and remains relevant today. Where do

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  • ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’

    ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’0

    Just over a century ago G. K. Chesterton wrote a book that is as relevant today as it was then.  In fact, its title remains as relevant today as it was then: “What’s Wrong with the World.” Would Mr. Chesterton be surprised and/or disappointed to learn that there are still things wrong today?  Not at

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  • ‘We’ Should Not Regulate Homeschooling

    ‘We’ Should Not Regulate Homeschooling0

    The desire to control other people’s ideas and behaviors, particularly when they challenge widely-held beliefs and customs, is one of human nature’s most nefarious tendencies. Socrates was sentenced to death for stepping out of line; Galileo almost was. But such extreme examples are outnumbered by the many more common, pernicious acts of trying to control

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