Culture

Christian Parents Appeal to US Supreme Court After Losing Custody of Their Trans-Identifying Son 2
- Culture, Family
- December 26, 2023
The United States Supreme Court will soon decide whether it will hear the case of a Christian couple from Indiana whose transgender-identifying son was removed from their custody over their refusal to affirm how he identifies. Jeremy and Mary Cox lost custody of their son in June 2021 after the Indiana Department of Child Services
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Poll: Most Young Adults Believe ‘Jews as a Class Are Oppressors’2
- Culture
- December 26, 2023
The Harvard/Harris poll asked people, “Do you think that Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors or is that a false ideology”? 67 percent of people age 18-24 agreed that Jews are “oppressors” and should be treated as oppressors. By contrast, only 27% of people in general, and only 9% of people over age 65, agreed
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Don’t Let the Grinches Steal Your Christmas 2
- Culture, Featured
- December 21, 2023
This Christmas season, the grinches are staying busy as usual. There’s the usual crew who annually devote themselves to debunking the season, flailing away at everything from a babe born in a manger to the season’s extravagant buying and selling to taking offense when someone says, “Merry Christmas!” In Iowa, Satanists have honed in on
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The Importance of Being Jolly 1
- Culture
- December 21, 2023
In the common parlance of modern America, the word “jolly” has fallen distinctly out of use. While words like “fun” and “happy” abound in everyday conversation, “jolly” is, in the minds of many, inexorably tied to Christmas. Traditional carols have kept the word alive in reference to the festivities of this season; one would be
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Christmas Shopping for a Happier New Year 1
- Culture
- December 20, 2023
Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If this is so, many of us are more cynical than we realize because we don’t know the difference between price and value. We buy the cheapest because this is our duty as good consumers. We need
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Giving Before Getting 2
- Culture, Featured
- December 19, 2023
When I was a little girl, my mother would take me and my five siblings to Grants, a long-gone discount store. We did this the first week in December every year, shopping for each other using money we had earned and saved. Running down the aisles, touching everything, brimming with excitement, and bursting with secrets,
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