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  • The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches

    The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches0

    Late last week, I ran across an intriguing article on the state of the Church of England in The Telegraph. According to the paper: “Churches with small and declining congregations may no longer have to hold weekly Sunday services as the Church of England considers dropping the legal requirement. A Church of England task group

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  • The Real Problem with American Education?

    The Real Problem with American Education?0

    • October 25, 2016

    Since its beginnings, America has directed most of its educational energies toward creating average students. Already in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in his classic Democracy in America, “I do not believe that there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few uninstructed and at the same time

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  • Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly

    Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly0

    English is a language rich with imagery, meaning and metaphor – and when we want to express ourselves we can draw upon a canon replete with beautifully turned phrases, drawing from the language’s Latin, French and Germanic roots, through Chaucer and Shakespeare right up to myriad modern wordsmiths – not to mention those apt aphorisms

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  • Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools

    Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools0

    Although it hasn’t been discussed very much this election cycle, it’s a well-known fact that education in the United States is in a sorry state. Something must be done… but what? That same question was likely in Booker T. Washington’s (1856-1915) mind as he struggled to educate and advance the position of freed black slaves

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  • The Greatest Generation? What Malarkey!

    The Greatest Generation? What Malarkey!0

    With due allegiance to persons and places, it is only right that we should love and respect our parents and grandparents. But we can do this without canonising the World War Two generation as the greatest, a piece of excessive sentimentality and sloppy thinking if ever there was one. The phrase was coined by the

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  • Can We Restore Dignity to Our Degraded Times?

    Can We Restore Dignity to Our Degraded Times?0

    The message is loud and clear. Your actions have no more significance than those of a cockroach. Furthermore, like a cockroach, you are in no position to make moral choices of your own free will. When you commit some hideous brutality, it is not that you decided to do so. No, on the contrary, external

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