During a recent move, I came across a copy of a 2021 letter I’d sent to my grandchildren. According to their parents, my older grandkids, then roughly ages eight to 16, were troubled and confused by the restrictions of the Covid pandemic and the bitter political divisions evident in the 2020 presidential race. In the
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Although one who enjoys a healthy amount of popular culture, I have moved beyond the hope that network television or streaming media is going to purposefully depict Christian philosophical or theological concepts accurately. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when watching season two of “The Pitt,” HBO’s hit series. There has been plenty of discussion as
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Several years ago, I joined some friends on a trip to Mackinac Island, a place famous for its Victorian culture and ban on automobiles. After bicycling around the island, we decided to splurge and have tea at The Grand Hotel, which is as polished as its name sounds. Before trooping in for tea, however, we
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In the literary world, postmodernism was a movement defined by cynicism, absurdism, satire, and irony. At some point, it stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we
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“Failure is one of God’s educators,” writes William George Jordan in his 1898 book, “The Majesty of Calmness.” I agree, but with this exception: You actually must sit in that classroom, eyes and ears open, notebook at the ready. Too often politicians and many other Americans are asleep or cutting class during that lesson. Which
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The much-anticipated release of the newest season of “The Bachelorette,” starring influencer Taylor Frankie Paul, was recently canceled. The reason was a leaked video showing Paul putting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, into a headlock during a domestic fight and throwing a metal chair at him that hit her daughter instead. The entire altercation was not
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