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‘A Christmas Carol’ Teaches Key Lessons in the Christian Vocation 0
- Literature
- December 22, 2017
“Is Christmas too materialistic? Well, it’s not as materialistic as God becoming flesh, redeeming our sinful flesh, and sending us back into the material world to live out our faith in love and service to our physical neighbors.” –Gene Veith We are routinely told that Charles Dickens’ beloved story, A Christmas Carol, was instrumental in giving
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Musician Has Life Savings Stolen During Police Traffic Stop 0
- Economics
- December 22, 2017
Phil Parhamovich is a musician from Madison, Wisconsin. Over the years, he saved up $91,800, only to have it seized by Wyoming Highway Patrol during a routine traffic stop near Cheyenne. Phil was never accused of, or charged with, a crime. Yet, he found himself in the fight of his life to recover the money
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Illinois Sees Record Loss of People and Income, IRS Data Shows 0
- Economics
- December 22, 2017
The Land of Lincoln is experiencing heavy losses of people and income to other states, new IRS data reveal. Illinois lost more than 86,000 people and $4.75 billion in adjusted gross income to other states from 2015-2016. Illinois’ problem with wealth flight isn’t just persisting, it’s getting worse. That’s the takeaway from new data released
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H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their debate whether science is humanity’s best hope 0
- Philosophy
- December 21, 2017
In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth continent under the ocean and the ability to reuse a spacecraft’s rocket boosters – it’s easy to forget that there’s an ongoing debate over science’s capacity to
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A Holiday in Siberia: A Child’s Story of Survival in a Soviet Concentration Camp 0
- History
- December 21, 2017
By the time Marysa Dac was seven years old she had spent Christmas in at least four different countries. This happened not because her father was a businessman (though he had been) or a diplomat (he was not) but because her family had the misfortune to be living in eastern Poland when it was annexed
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Philosophy Prof Argues Human Nature Doesn’t Exist. Commits Logical Fallacy 0
- Philosophy
- December 21, 2017
In this new article for Aeon, Ronnie de Sousa, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the facts of evolution entail that “there is no such thing as human nature.” Instead, what we are is what we make of ourselves by our individual and collective choices. There is no prior “human
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