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  • When Knitting Becomes Political

    When Knitting Becomes Political0

    Should a crafting website be a forum for political discussion?  And if the website claims to be “inclusive” can it ban one political viewpoint from its forums?  That’s a question we should all ponder in the wake of Ravelry’s recent decision. On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Ravelry, a free, community-based website for yarn-related craft enthusiasts,

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  • When It Comes to Religion, Do Dan Brown and C.S. Lewis Agree?

    When It Comes to Religion, Do Dan Brown and C.S. Lewis Agree?0

    Ahead of the release of his new book Origin, famed author Dan Brown was interviewed by CBS. During the course of the interview, the issue of religion came up and Brown was asked to elaborate on his views of this explosive subject. In response to whether he was “anti-religion,” Brown replied: “Absolutely not. Religion does

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  • When It Comes to Reading, Does Quality Beat Quantity?

    When It Comes to Reading, Does Quality Beat Quantity?0

    At this cultural moment, a question like quality-over-quantity may seem an inane one to ask. We live in a society, after all, where schools dumb down their English curricula, where one in five rising freshmen enter college as ‘book virgins’, and (with apologies to Norman Juster) where those same students swim for years in the

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  • When It Comes To Manners and Civility, Don’t Be a ‘Goop’

    When It Comes To Manners and Civility, Don’t Be a ‘Goop’0

    While recently visiting my daughter’s house to celebrate the high school graduation of my twin granddaughters, I mentioned Gelett Burgess’ collection of poems for children, “Goops and How to Be Them.” Instantly the two graduates, a couple of their siblings, and my daughter chanted in unison that book’s first poem, “Table Manners.” The Goops they

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  • When It Comes to Job Qualifications, Are Skills More Important than a College Degree?

    When It Comes to Job Qualifications, Are Skills More Important than a College Degree?0

    Instead of immediately pursuing college when I graduated from high school, I took several years off and focused on other things, one of which was operating my own business. Yet when I sought to apply that business experience in another job, I found that I could only receive minimum wage because of my lack of

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  • When It Comes to Gender, Science and Political Correctness Don’t Mix

    When It Comes to Gender, Science and Political Correctness Don’t Mix0

    In my junior high and high school science courses we were taught that whether you were a male or female depended on your chromosomal make-up. Females had two X chromosomes (XX) and males had an X and a Y chromosome (XY). There were exceptions to this rule, we were told. Those with Turner’s Syndrome had

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