A 19th-century peace activist once asked, “Is it possible that any Christian, of whatever sect, who believes the New Testament to be anything better than a fable, can doubt for a moment that the time will come when all the kingdoms of the earth shall be at peace?” Jesus Christ, as both a religious and
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There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit
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It’s not news that U.S. divorce rate hovers around 50 percent. It seems more and more that divorce is no longer an anomaly – in fact, it might even be considered a norm. But have you ever wondered why the numbers run so high? According to Human Intimacy, by Frank D. Cox and Kevin Demmitt,
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I think I’m not the only person that cries every time I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie pulls our heart strings because we can all relate to George Bailey: man has dreams to see the world and do big things, but is instead given a meager life of service. Many reduce the film’s
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One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as
READ MOREJohn Maynard Keynes is, together with Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the 20th century. His most acclaimed work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, contributed to the paradigm shift that took place in the economics profession in the mid-1930s. He’s also the most quoted economist among non-economists, who more often than
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