When I was 10 years old, the opportunity to attend a living history program one summer day left me in a tizzy of anticipation. There was only one problem. I had outgrown all of my historically accurate costumes and had nothing to wear to the event. My mom assessed the situation, pulled out her sewing
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Celebrities may deny it. Feminists may lead us to believe otherwise. But the fact of the matter is, children do much better in life when they have a father to guide them through it. In fact, research shows that children with an active father experience better physical and mental health, better development, and better behavior
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We all know how important reading is. It benefits relationships. It builds language development. And reading books has even been found to lengthen one’s life. Such knowledge causes many of us to be aghast at the fact that more than one in four Americans didn’t read a book last year. But what about those
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This morning, a friend sent me a story from a right-wing news site. It claimed that “74 percent of Californians want to end sanctuary cities.” The statistic didn’t seem to smell right. Seventy-four percent of Californians? The state in which Donald Trump won 33 percent of the vote? The poll ostensibly had been conducted by
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The possibility of another American civil war is something that many raise as a topic of interest, but usually dismiss as remote. But in his most recent column, conservative pundit Dennis Prager goes so far as to say that “America is currently fighting its Second Civil War”: “In fact, with the obvious and enormous
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What happens when the religious beliefs that undergird a culture are pulled out from under it, as has happened in the West? There is a whole literature on exactly this question: 1. Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was the greatest thinker of the twentieth century and this was his greatest book (with the possible exception of
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