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  • Religion is Down, Spirituality is Up

    Religion is Down, Spirituality is Up0

    An interesting conundrum was raised by Pew Research earlier this week. Writing for Pew, David Masci and Michael Lipka noted that although religion is on the decline in America, the number of individuals who experience “spiritual peace and well-being” and “wonder about the universe” has seen a dramatic increase in the last several years. “The

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  • Religion and Cultural Friction: Are the Two Related?

    Religion and Cultural Friction: Are the Two Related?0

    Republicans and Democrats today rarely agree on anything. So it’s not surprising that a new Pew Research report shows them at odds again. This time, the disagreement is on religion and its influence in society. Roughly two-thirds of Republicans believe that religion brings people together, strengthens morality in society, and does more good than harm.

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  • Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis0

    “The world is too much with us,” wrote Wordsworth. Today, frightened by continuous coverage of COVID-19, few would disagree. “What you focus on creates your experience,” writes Winifred Gallagher in her book Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Gallagher continues, “choosing those targets wisely is the key to the good life.”  Gallagher wouldn’t advise ignoring COVID-19, yet

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  • Relativism is Enslaving

    Relativism is Enslaving0

    • April 7, 2016

    Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.”   G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.”   The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to

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  • Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare

    Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare1

    This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.                                Shakespeare – Hamlet (sic) These words from arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play were quoted

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  • Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School

    Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School1

    The COVID lockdowns enabled parents nationwide to see inside their children’s public-school classrooms. Many realized their kids were being taught the divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT), a race-essentialist ideology, and have fought back any way they can. Some are homeschooling their kids, while others are enrolling them in parochial schools that do not teach CRT.

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