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  • Michigan Public Schools Reading Religious Poetry?

    Michigan Public Schools Reading Religious Poetry?0

    • August 28, 2015

    In today’s schools, it seems it’s anathema to make any mention of God, the Bible, or Christianity. But surprisingly, that doesn’t seem to have been the case 100 years ago in Michigan Public Schools. Published in 1916 by the Michigan Superintendent of Education, the Manual and Course of Study [for] Elementary Schools recommends ten poems

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  • The Porn Debate

    The Porn Debate0

    • August 28, 2015

    The debate over the rightness or wrongness of pornography has arisen again with the news about Josh Duggar’s infidelities, which he in part attributes to an addiction to internet pornography. When it comes to the morality of pornography, it seems there are two main competing views today. One view holds that looking at pornography is

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  • The 7 Social Sins

    The 7 Social Sins0

    • August 28, 2015

    Interestingly, you usually see the above “sins” attributed to Gandhi, as he published them in his weekly newspaper in 1925. But Gandhi is not the origin of this list. Rather it was first uttered earlier that year in a sermon delivered in Westminster Abbey by an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson. Here is a picture

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  • Remember This Line?

    Remember This Line?0

    • August 28, 2015

    “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Spoken by Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint, it’s probably the most oft-quoted line from the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects. Some people mistakenly attribute it to C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, which involves a dialogue between two demons who are trying to bring about the

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  • How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina

    How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina0

    • August 28, 2015

    This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For non-residents of Louisiana, the news of the Hurricane was a dark cloud over their lives for a few days, which then moved on as the initial disaster passed out of the news. For others, the effects of the disaster remain present. But what was a

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  • Thomas Jefferson Had Some Issues with Newspapers

    Thomas Jefferson Had Some Issues with Newspapers0

    Thomas Jefferson truly believed that a free people require a free press. On the other hand, he really loathed newspapers, as illustrated by the following 10 quotes: 1. “The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any

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