Culture

Taylor Swift, Politics, and the Value of Friendship 1
- Culture, MomThink, Politics
- September 17, 2024
Last week, former President Donald Trump stirred the pot by posting a social media message praising Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for “strongly defending” him on social media. Whether liking a few social media posts constitutes a strong defense of the GOP presidential contender is debatable. Regardless, rumors quickly erupted
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Why Bible Stories Are Essential for Cultural Literacy 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- September 16, 2024
In March of 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama spoke of “A More Perfect Union” in a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. In that speech, he used the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, and Ezekiel’s field of dry bones to bring life to his message.
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Nuance in Social Media? What We Are Losing in the Binary 1
- Culture, Featured
- September 16, 2024
If there’s anything studying philosophy has taught me, it’s that black-and-white issues are incredibly few and far between. Most anything can be questioned, most any terms redefined, and most any argument examined from a dozen different angles. For this reason, I’ve found myself frustrated by the lack of nuance that most social mediums provide. Particularly
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Democracy’s Animal Farm: An Allegory in George Orwell’s Fairy Tale 0
- Politics, Culture, Literature
- September 16, 2024
Every system, particularly political and social systems, are based off of rules. The rules may be written or unwritten, but nonetheless, the rules exist and conforming to them — at least appearing to conform to them — is often an important aspect of life. Since we are often told of late that our democracy is
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Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’3
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- September 13, 2024
Often, we want quick fixes. We live in the tyranny of the present moment, and it’s hard for us to take a long-term view of history and our own moment within it. Most things take time—especially good things, like restorations and healing and growth. But we become impatient. We want results now. We lose hope.
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What We Lose With Our Attention Spans 5
- Culture, Featured
- September 12, 2024
Shakespeare’s plays were considered popular entertainment when he first wrote and staged them in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Often today, the name Shakespeare carries certain high-brow or elitist connotations, but in his own time, Shakespeare wrote for everyone, from the aristocrats of Elizabeth’s court to the tradesmen who took an afternoon off
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