If you ever want to get an interesting – sometimes shocking – glimpse of today’s culture, try reading the advice columns that populate many of the nation’s newspapers. A letter to Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column caught my eye today. The letter writer explained that a friend (“Chrissy”) in her late 30s was still dealing with the effects of her parents’ divorce, roughly
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Author and mother Gina Bontempo noted on X recently that the online uproar over a woman being the “default parent” in her child’s life smacks of the lie that men and women can, and should, be treated as interchangeable. For those unfamiliar with internet lingo, the phenomenon in question is as old as mothers and
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A newborn baby is about 25 billion times bigger at birth than it was at conception. That incredible growth occurs in just nine months. If an adult did that, his head would be among the moon and stars by the end. Nothing should grow that quickly, yet it happens with every baby. Every time. And,
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Do you remember that thing called the Covid pandemic a few years ago? Schools closed, businesses closed, churches closed. The nation spent weeks – in some cases months – holed up in their homes, rarely daring to set foot outside except for essentials. It was a nightmare that many of us thought we’d never forget.
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In mid-December, an article I wrote for another publication on the story behind “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” prompted an email from a reader disputing some of my facts. His source was Wikipedia, which my editors at that publication had told me to avoid. My source, which included a link, clashed with his information. At any
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When people first encounter C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” they assume they’re getting a Christian book about temptation or a moral fable written for a specific audience who lived in a particular time. Yet as I’ve begun reading the book for the first time, it’s clear that Lewis is doing something more precise than mere
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