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What is a Humanist Wedding and Why is it Becoming Popular?2
- Culture
- July 31, 2018
According to Brides.com, the months from late spring to early fall are generally considered to be “wedding season.” My fellow Alcuin Fellows and I found that we each know roughly half a dozen or so couples that have gotten engaged in the past year, and have noticed the summer wedding trend. A wedding trend that
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What Is a Home?1
- Philosophy
- September 27, 2023
The ultimate adventure story is about the journey home. Consider, for example, Odysseus at sea, Aeneas in search of a haven for the Trojans, the Israelites in the desert. Such stories strike a note on the strings of our souls that vibrates through us like a call. A homeland beckons. In the archetypal hero’s journey,
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What is a friend?0
- Culture
- February 5, 2016
A recently released study by Oxford University claims to be “the first real attempt to test whether online social media do allow us to increase the size of our social networks.” The conclusions of the study? Your Facebook friends aren’t your friends – except for, maybe, four of them. “…there is a cognitive constraint on
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What is a 21st Century Family?0
- Culture
- August 2, 2019
What is a family? Not so long ago it would have been uncontroversial to reply, “A husband and wife and their children.” This conjugal family could be diminished by the death of a member, splintered by divorce, expanded by the co-residence of other relations (a grandmother, for example), an adopted child, or other persons; but
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What is “Toxic Masculinity”?1
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
The failure of current culture to define the term “toxic masculinity” (as mentioned in the recent Gillette ad) is a serious problem. Does it mean a subset of masculinity is toxic? Or, does it mean masculinity itself is toxic? If masculinity itself is toxic (as some people claim is the point of the recent American
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What is “Secularism”?0
- September 17, 2015
What is fascinating about our times is the dominant cultural narrative is set against religion. By that we mean that our modern secular society depends upon acknowledging that previous cultures were established upon religion and we are not. In other words, we as a society are moving away from something, that something being a religious
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