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  • New Regulations Cause California Soup Kitchen to Close Its Doors

    New Regulations Cause California Soup Kitchen to Close Its Doors1

    For the past four years, Deliverance San Diego has been delivering hot meals to the city’s homeless population every Friday, averaging 200 donated meals on any given evening. Now, due to new guidelines passed by the State Legislature of California, the non-profit is ceasing operations and will dissolve by the end of the month. Through their existing model, hot

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  • Is Tom Brokaw Wrong About Assimilation?

    Is Tom Brokaw Wrong About Assimilation?0

    My father came to the United States in the 1950s under the Bracero Program, worked multiple jobs for most of his life, bought a home in Southern California, and put his two children through school. Though we never had the conversation, I can imagine his surprise at hearing that the expensive education he afforded his

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  • How Bible Literacy Classes Could Help Heal Our Bitter Divisions

    How Bible Literacy Classes Could Help Heal Our Bitter Divisions0

    Any good teacher of history knows that you don’t just stick with the textbook. To really understand an event like the Battle of Gettysburg or Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, you have to read the primary sources—the speeches, handwritten letters, and firsthand accounts of the people who were there. Otherwise, all that’s left is

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  • A 1913 Prescription for ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    A 1913 Prescription for ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    If recent headlines are any indication, it seems that masculinity is destined to be the word of the year. Between shaving commercials, official guidelines from the American Psychological Association, and viral videos depicting “disrespectful” teen boys, the idea of what it means to be a decent man has become rather confused. This confusion about manhood

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  • Why These Feminists Oppose Pelosi’s Equality Act

    Why These Feminists Oppose Pelosi’s Equality Act0

    Four self-described liberal feminists said Monday that “gender equality” legislation pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will jeopardize women’s rights and actually promote inequality. “The Equality Act, which sounds all well and good, is an unmitigated disaster for women and girls,” Kara Dansky, a lawyer and board member at the Women’s Liberation Front, said at

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  • Should You Give Up Your Metro Seat to a Pregnant Woman?

    Should You Give Up Your Metro Seat to a Pregnant Woman?0

    Should you give up your seat on public transport to a pregnant woman? Probably a majority of people would answer “yes” to that question. But how does that work in practice? The London Underground has a creative solution. They offer expectant mothers a white button to wear that says “Baby on Board.” Their trains have

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  • Democratic Socialism and Regular Socialism Have the Same Goal

    Democratic Socialism and Regular Socialism Have the Same Goal0

    The longing for the socialist dream comes in part from the great success of capitalism as an engine of prosperity. From the nineteenth century onwards, the entrepreneurial economy created prosperity on a scale that had never been seen before in history.The socialists, however, believed economic success would become even greater in a society of egalitarian

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  • Can Children Really Be Raised ‘Without the Concept of Sin’?

    Can Children Really Be Raised ‘Without the Concept of Sin’?0

    Working for an online publication naturally brings a lot of feedback from those in the trenches. These reports are fascinating, for they give a snippet view of what real families in every day America are experiencing. One such piece of recent feedback came in the form of the photo below, which depicts a child’s school

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  • Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism

    Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism0

    In a bold move last week, the National Assembly of Venezuela, which was deprived of its constitutional powers by the government-controlled Supreme Court in March 2017, appointed National Assembly’s leader Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. This triggered an immediate reaction on the streets where millions of Venezuelans gathered to demand the resignation of

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