There have been many responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in all spheres of life from businesses, educational institutions, churches, and within close intimate human relationships. Most of these responses have arisen spontaneously as people’s duties to protect themselves and others, both individuals and communities, have become plain to them. Government at all levels has also acted, imposing a series of sometimes
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I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week.
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Each year, nearly three million high school seniors graduate and then go straight on to college. I suspect many of them are just as clueless as I was when I graduated high school. Most just go to college because that is what they have been told to do. This coronavirus has turned all that on
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Freddy McConnell, a “trans man” who became pregnant and gave birth, but legally became a man when the child was born, has been pursuing a legal challenge against the General Register Office as the administrator of the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales. This week he lost at the Court of Appeal
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Maybe part of the “New Normal” should be the “Old Normal.” In the last two weeks, lost among the coronavirus ruckus, some organizations have issued reports revealing the poor scores of our elementary and middle school students on standardized tests. From the Pioneer Institute comes a study showing the failures of Common Core in basic subjects like
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. Frank Herbert, noted writer of science fiction, was being scientifically factual when he included this line in his novel Dune. Fear is, in fact, the mind-killer. Don’t get me wrong, fear serves a purpose. There are times when fear
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