A year ago, had you stood in front of Mountain Inn and Suites on the outskirts of Erwin, Tenn., to your left you would have seen four or five small businesses and some storage units, flanked by a Baptist church. To your right would be a Mexican restaurant, Panchos & Amigos, joined to a convenience
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American pews were full the Sunday after the brutal open-air assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The reminder of the fragile briefness of life and the stark display of evil in the murderous act understandably coaxed many backslidden church-goers back to worship. The naysayers believe this won’t stick. It’s up to American pastors to prove
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Recently a friend with stellar taste in literature was taken aback when she learned I’d never read any of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” books. In my parenting days, my daughter and her Atlanta cousin both devoured as many of these stories as they could get their hands on, and two of my granddaughters,
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In the days since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the internet has been filled with clips and quotes of him talking about family, white privilege, immigration, and a whole host of other issues. Yet one that’s been circulating has particularly impressed me, thanks to the content and its uniqueness in our world today. That clip is one in
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When NBC announced a follow-up to their hit show “The Office” last January, the internet was skeptical. “I don’t think this is a good idea,” one commenter wrote on Facebook after hearing the announcement. “A spinoff could ruin [The Office’s] legacy.” I was skeptical, too. “The Office,” in many ways, feels unique – a creation
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The above words were the theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize address. Early in this speech he said, “And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”
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