Blog 3 Columns

The Decline and Fall of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2018
Believe it or not, I had never heard of Andy Griffith until I was forty years old. For some reason, The Andy Griffith Show had never made an impact on British television; at least, I have no recollection of ever seeing it, unlike other American sitcoms which had formed part of the backdrop to my
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Meet the Theologian Who Taught MLK the Value of Nonviolence 0
- Culture
- January 12, 2018
After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain them over the next coming days: How do they make the space for self-care alongside a constant call to activism? Or, how do they turn off their phones, when there are more calls to be
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How Collective Narcissism Fuels Political and Social Discord 0
- Culture
- January 12, 2018
In 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the sentence was announced, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Khartoum demanding the teacher’s execution for blasphemy. While alternative explanations existed – the
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Can Something Be ‘Good’ or ‘Great’, Even If You Hate It?0
- Literature
- January 12, 2018
I don’t really care for C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. I sympathize with the allegory Lewis was trying to present throughout the series, but I felt that it was too overt in places, and took away from the overall narrative. To me, it was distracting. But even though I didn’t personally enjoy the Chronicles of
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Why You Should Think Twice About a Master’s Degree If You Live in These States (See Charts)0
- Economics
- January 11, 2018
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a young lady in her early twenties. Having graduated with her bachelor’s degree several months before, she was now reflecting on her current job prospects and her future ambitions. “I’m kind of thinking about going to grad school,” she confessed. Not wanting to dampen her ambition,
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The Sexual Revolution That Needs to Happen, But Won’t 0
- Culture
- January 11, 2018
Adults of a certain age know that something called “the sexual revolution” happened in the 1960s, soon after the anovulant birth-control pill was invented and marketed. As liberal religion writer Elizabeth Bruenig puts it in an interesting new article about the #MeToo movement: “The sexual revolution made a vast number of previously unavailable sexual choices
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The Feds Fought a Two-Year Battle Against the Truth to Prosecute Cliven Bundy—and the Truth Won 0
- Politics
- January 11, 2018
In April 2014, rancher Cliven Bundy put out a nationwide plea. He claimed the federal government, with whom he had been in a land feud for two decades, was taking his property and had come armed for war. “They have my house surrounded,” Bundy said, from Bunkerville, Nevada. “The federal government is stealing my property
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The 5 Most Dangerous Countries for Christians 0
- International
- January 11, 2018
For the sixteenth consecutive year, North Korea is ranked as the most oppressive place in the world for Christians, according to the international non-profit ministry Open Doors. Every year Open Doors publishes the World Watch List to highlight the plight of persecuted Christians around the world. The list represents believers “who are arrested, harassed, tortured—even
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The 10 Habits of Logical People 0
- Philosophy
- January 11, 2018
Becoming a logical person is not just a matter of memorizing and applying formulas, or learning how to tell the difference between a valid and an invalid syllogism. Rather, it involves cultivating intellectual habits and skills that, though they may seem simple and obvious, are only achieved after years of struggle and education. In his
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The Decline and Fall of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’0