Culture

What Is Advent, and Why Does It Matter?5
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Religion
- December 3, 2024
Sunday, December 1 marked the beginning of Advent for 2024. But what exactly is Advent, and why does it matter? Advent comes from the Latin adventus, which means “coming.” In simple terms, Advent is the period on the church calendar directly preceding Christmas. Within the Christian worldview, Advent is a special time of preparation and
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No Substitute for the Real Thing: Study Finds That Looking at Famous Painting in Person Stimulates the Brain More Than Looking at a Copy 6
- Featured, Culture, Science
- December 2, 2024
A recent study revealed that a viewer’s emotional response to a painting is ten times more intense when viewing the original as opposed to a copy. The research involved five paintings, including Johannes Vermeer’s 1665 work Girl With a Pearl Earring, which was the piece that participants viewed for the longest. The paintings seem to
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What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?6
- Culture, Featured, Health, MomThink, Politics
- November 26, 2024
Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters. As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the
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Hope for American Education?5
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- November 25, 2024
Over the years, I’ve written extensively about the decline—nay, crisis—of American education (see here, here, and here, for instance). During the 20th century, our universities were steadily infiltrated and usurped by Marxists, socialists, and postmodernists, and the consequences have been dire. “Wokeism” and the catastrophic absurdities of everything from Gender Theory to Queer Studies to
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Thanksgiving According to the Founding Fathers 8
- Culture, Featured, History
- November 22, 2024
Although the Pilgrims came in 1620 and held the First Thanksgiving shortly thereafter, the national holiday which we celebrate didn’t come into existence until 1863. But America was not without Thanksgiving celebrations in the intervening years. As the quotes below demonstrate, days of prayer, fasting, and thanksgiving became a frequent part of American life, particularly
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9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy 8
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- November 19, 2024
An often-overlooked Cold War journalist, political thinker, and ex-Soviet spy, Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in a poor and troubled home. Desperation and dissatisfaction with his upbringing and sympathy toward the plight of the poor and working class made Marxist ideology and its practical application—communism—especially appealing to Chambers. Like many young
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