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I remember the backlash against Disney very well. In 2021, when the company launched its Reimagine Tomorrow diversity initiative and pledged that 50% of recurring characters in scripted content would come from underrepresented groups, it was met with a collective sigh. Disney didn’t seem to care about the criticism. They marched headlong into the proverbial abyss. However,
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YouTube/Angel and Wonder ProjectNowadays, if you love going to the movies you must either choose to watch a great film with degenerate themes or a wholesome film that is badly done. Hollywood has the budget for intense action, brilliant acting, and well-written scripts – all very enjoyable if you are willing to ignore the politically-correct
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Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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No life lacks disappointment. From the mundane (our favorite sports team loses yet again) to the life-shattering (an unexpected spot on an MRI scan), disappointments punctuate our existence. In politics, religion, finances, relationships, health, we’re forced repeatedly to confront the failure of hopes, the crumbling of visions. “We all break a little when we fall,”
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One constant of my growing-up years was my family’s afternoon “quiet time.” My siblings and I would each be given a separate space in which to play – our room, usually, or a designated spot in the house – and we would amuse ourselves quietly for an hour or two. I loved the days when
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With the 250th anniversary of our country behind us, I’ve been left with a lot of patriotism. It can be easy to focus on the negatives, but when we fix our gaze on gratitude, the solution to this pessimism is all the more evident. The American Way My small-town home is filled with good people,
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