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Make Volunteering Great Again0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- May 21, 2026
While at home over Christmas break this past December, I attended a volunteer opportunity as a chaperone for my church youth group. We worked a shift at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), a ministry that ships hand-packed meals to distribution partners worldwide. A mix of upbeat pop tunes and Christian hits blared as we washed
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Christian Hope in Hollywood? Finding Faith in Unexpected Places.0
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Religion
- May 21, 2026
Are we “so back” as some online Christians proclaim? Such a triumphalist spirit in any camp of Christianity should be avoided, especially when the next large-scale poll of Christian attrition will likely pour cold water on the idea. Yet despite all the sobering realities of a modern, pluralistic, and post-Christendom world, there are often small shoots of hope
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Why Do Reading Scores Keep Declining?0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
Reading scores for students in the United States have declined significantly in the last 15 years, a slide which continues in the most recent Nation’s Report Card. Some point to the school closures during the Covid pandemic as cause for this decline. Doubtless the lockdowns had an impact, yet data shows that test scores were already
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A Simple Formula for Restoring Modern Society0
- Culture, Family, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
In the 2017 documentary “LOOK & SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” the great cultural and agricultural writer Wendell Berry stated: We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only
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Rising Costs Aren’t Stopping Young Couples From Having Kids0
It’s no secret that rising costs are devastating Americans right now, and that young people are feeling the brunt of it. For the generation currently starting families, these costs are particularly stressful. Undoubtedly, the prospect of pinching pennies to pay for astronomical labor and delivery bills, car seats, formula, and strollers on top of life’s
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Because Our Sidewalks Need Fixing0
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 19, 2026
Imagine you are strolling along your downtown sidewalks. To your left you see a vacant lot overrun with weeds. The street to your right isn’t safe and needs to be avoided. A fellow across the block is using hard drugs in broad daylight. There are loads of shuttered buildings and, besides you, very little foot
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An Old-School Education Model Reinvented for the 21st Century0
My grandfather attended a one-room schoolhouse as a child, although he sometimes was thrown out for smelling like the skunks he pulled from his trapping route on the way to school. He made some good money checking his traps on the path to and from school, paid by Sears, Roebuck and Co. for the pelts
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Is Curiosity a Sin?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- May 19, 2026
Human innovation, if the last 200 years are any indication, appears limitless. The slow ascent of technological progress has soared exponentially upward. We could only have produced such amazing results because of our infinite capacity for curiosity about the world around us. If this is true, then why could Thomas Aquinas, widely acknowledged both inside
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4 Reasons Hollywood Has Trouble Getting a Box Office Hit0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Philosophy
- May 18, 2026
There’s been a lot of chatter in recent weeks about the new movie “Project Hail Mary.” With a tone of pleasant surprise, both average folks and critics have noted that, for once, Hollywood produced a decent, enjoyable film. I haven’t joined the throngs attending “Project Hail Mary,” so I can’t comment on whether I agree
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