Scrolling online one night, you see pictures of someone’s weekend trip or even their lunch meal, all arranged for an audience. Essentially, these images drag someone else’s hidden thing into the light. And the life we choose in the light and in the dark depends on the audience – our good deeds want a witness,
READ MOREThe “problem of evil,” which asks, “How is God good when there is so much evil in the world?” has long remained one of the most contested questions in philosophy. For many the deeper issue is not that evil exists, but that God, in some way, causes evil. But is this the case? The common
READ MOREIn the past few years, something has increasingly troubled me regarding my fellow females. Many of them have never looked better—at least in the polish and perfection of today’s picture-perfect Instagram world. Indeed, female podcasters, politicians, and other public figures all race to capture the hair blowouts, lip fillers, and contoured faces that society tells
READ MORELindsay Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial several weeks ago after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether she was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey sensed her citizens’ worry that the precedent of this case would lead to copycat cases, so she
READ MOREA couple of years ago, my son and his family moved to Topsail Island, a barrier island south of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Only one roadway, Island Drive, runs north to south, which means it is molasses-thick with traffic in the summer, especially on weekends when tourists are either leaving or arriving at the houses
READ MOREA young volunteer firefighter, Andrew Coates, recently made headlines when his application for a paid position doing the job he loves was rejected. The reason? He was homeschooled. According to the city’s human resources director, the high school diploma that the paid firefighter position required needed to be from an accredited high school. Because Coates’
READ MOREIf you spent any time consuming news media these past few weeks, you’re aware of the AI fears flooding the world. Doom-laden predictions saturate the headlines, and each day another somewhat frazzled, pale-faced, bespectacled whistleblower emerges from a dark server room to prophesy the end. Panic over AI’s alleged world-ending capabilities has been smoldering under
READ MOREThough not the focal point of Christianity, an essential foundation to understand the need for Christ is the recognition of human sin. The theological understanding of sin was central in the Hebrew congregation preceding Christ and continues to heavily influence Christianity today; however, because the concept has been around for thousands of years, it can
READ MORENearly a year has passed since conservative journalist Helen Andrews’ essay “The Great Feminization” ignited a cultural firestorm. Her first paragraph ran as follows: In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym ‘J. Stone,’ argued that the
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