Millions of Americans start each morning by staring at a six-inch screen. Then they spend the day working in front of a 16-inch screen. They end the day watching a 60-inch screen. This isn’t just a dystopian nightmare, like the one depicted in Disney’s “WALL-E.” It’s real life for a lot of people. It was
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Conservatism has been on the rise in recent years. Yet with that rise, it increasingly seems that conservatives, even those who identify as Christians, have begun to trade the essence of the conservative temperament for a right-wing adaptation of postmodern angst and edginess. Edginess? It’s a fitting word for this spirit for, as Merriam-Webster defines
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It’s often said that “tenderness leads to the gas chambers.” Derived from a passage in Flannery O’Connor’s work, “Mystery and Manners,” the full quote in context gives a solid lesson on how compassion untethered to virtue can lead to disaster and ruin: If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with
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Don Lemon made a little boy cry and Hollywood couldn’t be happier. On a Sunday in January, Lemon led a group of disruptive “protestors” into Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., to scream at the parishioners about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who allegedly attended the church. Lemon, a former CNN host, gleefully filmed
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What do minimalism, slow living, tech resistance, and homesteading – all growing trends in America – have in common? They all spring from a longing for a simpler way of life. Sometimes that longing takes on a nostalgic or idealistic form. Yet it’s a legitimate desire, symptomatic of our sense that something has gone wrong, that our techno-industrial world, for
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Humans possess a natural sense that there is something higher than themselves. Throughout history, some thinkers even argued that merely understanding the word “God” proves His existence. If God means the greatest possible being, and existing in reality is greater than existing only in the mind, then God must exist. Others claimed that since truth
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