Culture

For Culture’s Sake, Relax!23
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 25, 2025
I once asked a friend whether he was “handy.” “Unfortunately, yes,” he replied. When a latch broke, or a faucet didn’t work, or a screen door needed replacing, he could never bring himself to hire someone to do the work. He could take care of it. He just didn’t want to. I am not handy.
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Let’s Make Every Day a National Day of Prayer 23
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- July 23, 2025
From its beginnings, America was a praying nation. On June 7, 1775, for instance, the Continental Congress issued a proclamation put together by John Adams, William Hooper, and Robert Paine that set aside a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” in hopes “that a speedy end may be put to the civil discord between Great Britain and
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Know Thyself By Knowing the Temperaments 25
- Culture, Featured, History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- July 22, 2025
Between pop psychology, personality tests, enneagrams, and horoscopes, there’s someone on every corner giving the answer to the self. But the quest for self-discovery is nothing new. The ancient Greeks had their own Myers-Briggs: the four temperaments. In fact, much of our current personality analysis boils down to these. A temperament refers to the natural
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To Build Up America, We Must Start Close to Home 19
- Culture, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- July 21, 2025
In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy famously urged, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” That sentence shines with rhetorical beauty and balance, but might be more accurate by changing one word: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you
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In Praise of Print 27
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 21, 2025
Fragmented. Distracted. So often, that’s our experience of the internet. Whenever I launch a browser, I am assaulted by an overwhelming mudslide of information, headlines, graphics, photos and videos splashing and splurging across the page, each vying for my attention. Clicking over to social media, I’m inundated with a new firehose of topics, tags, talking
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4 Surprising Things the Founders Intended to Include in American Education 29
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Religion, Uncategorized
- July 18, 2025
One of the childhood stories in my father’s arsenal is set at lunchtime in his local public school. Although he went home for lunch, he often heard his teacher leading the classroom in a group rendition of “Come Lord Jesus, be our guest,” as he gathered his things before walking across the street. A few
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