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This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home0
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village. The
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Should a Christian be a Foodie?0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
One of the highly celebrated pleasures of our time is fine cuisine. All manner of foodie hotspots have sprung up as TV shows and social media continue to popularize delicious, unique food. But should Christians partake in the foodie culture? Not long ago, Christians saw abstaining from worldly pleasures as a way to deny the
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Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to
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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. In the settlement, the school promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t allow parents to opt out “based on religious or conscience objections,”
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How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be? For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of
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Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire. Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism. The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could
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Christian Art Stinks Today. Why?3
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
I’ve long wondered why it is that modern Christians contribute so little art of merit to our culture. I’ll occasionally make this point to fellow Christians over cocktails when I feel naughty. Invariably, my thesis meets pushback. “What about Tolkien and Lewis,” they contend. “Oh, and Chesterton.” When it is pointed out they are citing
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Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0
- Politics
- August 7, 2017
President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism
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Who is Winning the Gender War: Boys or Girls?0
- Education
- August 7, 2017
Recent headlines have made much to-do over the gains – or setbacks – of transgender students. With this focus, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s happening with the two original genders: boys and girls. For many years, we’ve been told that it is females who are falling behind in the war between the sexes.
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