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Since the annual flood of Christmas-flavored consumerism appears in stores and online as early as September, it’s no secret that Christmas is becoming a more superficial holiday by the year. You see it in stores as Christmas decorations favor gingerbread houses and candy canes over nativity scenes. You hear it on the radio when “Silent
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It’s commonplace today for people to loosely use the term “fact.” When invoked, it’s used as a predicate for something that simply is and therefore not open to question or debate. For instance, when President Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union Address that “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”
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Dealing with the death of a loved one is hard at any time of year, but especially at the holidays. Having lost a couple of close relatives on and around Christmas, I know this full well. I can only imagine what it must be like to go through seasonal celebrations having just lost a loved
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“Man,” philosopher Aristotle declared long ago, “is a political animal.” Perhaps too political. A dozen years ago, when Sonny Bunch was the managing editor of “The Washington Free Beacon,” he expressed his frustration with people who are so consumed by politics that they have become incapable of separating it from other aspects of their lives,
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Working moms are a hot topic right now, as the debate over the tradwife vs. the girl boss intensifies. But what is a tradwife? Is she necessarily a stay-at-home mom? And can she pull in an income too? Indeed, is it an outright requirement that she pulls her weight financially? So much has and should
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You’ve most likely heard the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” played during the holiday season. What you might not know is that it refers to a yearly tradition that begins on December 17 each year, namely, the “O Antiphons.” It is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and that his coming
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