I was reminded that Thanksgiving is fast approaching when I drove by a local school the other day and saw children leaving the building wearing Pilgrim and Indian hats. This morning I got to thinking: the story of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America is quite a common lesson in the early elementary classroom, but is
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In the last several years we’ve seen Black Friday sales start at 4 am Friday morning… then at midnight… then at 10pm on Thanksgiving… then at 6pm when most people are still trying to finish their turkey dinner. But recent developments suggest that the pendulum might be swinging the other way. At the end of
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The Crusades are often used as a cudgel in an attempt to paint Christianity as barbaric, hypocritical, and ultimately dismissible. Doing so, of course, isn’t new. G.K. Chesterton, the prolific author who lived at the turn of the last century, encountered the argument as well. His response found in The Way of the Desert, the
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Earlier this week we noted how lax student discipline policies are making it difficult for many students to learn. Yet these policies continue on in the name of sensitivity and equity. But is it possible that those acting up and disrupting class are secretly longing for discipline, order, and stability? That seems to be the
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In her famous 1947 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers wrote: “Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to
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Quite often we approach a debate as gladiatorial matches in which the goal is to utterly eviscerate our opponents. But is that always best? Do we lose a little bit of our own humanity when we see individuals or even friends and family members as people to destroy in a discussion? It’s true that they
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