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  • Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend

    Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend0

    Ever been disheartened by the scores of cars you see in mall parking lots while driving home from Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s? The recent push to expand Black Friday onto the Thanksgiving holiday itself seems to signal that the days of rest, quietness, and family time are over. But after a few years of this

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  • On Americans On Islam

    On Americans On Islam0

    • November 25, 2015

    Americans, oh Americans. It seems that Americans today are in a frenzy over Islam – and what we hear is that either Islam is a great, peaceful, edifying religion with a few wingnut freaks (similar to Westboro Baptists, etc.), or that, say, something like one in three Muslims is teaching their 7 year-old how to

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  • Gratitude Lists of 5 Famous Americans

    Gratitude Lists of 5 Famous Americans0

    Thanksgiving presents us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings we have been given. To get your personal gratitude juices flowing, check out the gratitude lists which five famous Americans once composed. They demonstrate, as John Adams once said, that despite trials and difficulties in life, “Gratitude is always in one’s Power.” 

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  • The Dangers of Entangling Alliances

    The Dangers of Entangling Alliances0

    Not a few people around the world have been taken aback and rightly concerned by the shooting down of a Russian fighter plane by the Turks. No doubt, few would want to see a conflict between Russia and Turkey. Worse, though, is the question of whether or not such a conflagration would involve the United

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  • Three Approaches to Suffering

    Three Approaches to Suffering0

    Writing from Britain during some of the darkest days of World War II, Catholic mystic Caryll Houselander published This War is the Passion in the hope that it would help Britons deal with the constant stress and anxiety as well as, and most importantly, the suffering that comes from war and life. While she wrote

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  • The Danger of Rejecting America’s Cultural Heritage

    The Danger of Rejecting America’s Cultural Heritage0

    We have come to a curious time in our history when it appears that America is largely in the process of rejecting its heritage and traditions. For those who pull the levers of power, the sins of the past are too much, we must remake ourselves. Whether you agree with that proposition or not, that

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