Culture

Toilet Paper Derangement Syndrome: It’s Here and It’s Real 0
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- March 23, 2020
I was at the dentist’s office last week for a checkup when Dr. H came in wearing his usual colorful smock. He poked around in my mouth, and then said to his assistant, “Number 15 is going to have to come out.” “Number 15?” I asked. “The molar at the back on the top left.
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The Twisted Optimism of the Miserabilists 0
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- March 23, 2020
With deaths mounting, economies tanking and unemployment growing, it’s hard to see anything positive in the coronavirus pandemic – other than rehearsing for something worse down the pike. However, optimism flourishes in odd places. In fact, some people batten on the misery of a world in turmoil. Here are a few miserabilists who see a
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What C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Tells Us About the Coming Election 0
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- March 23, 2020
Americans, finally facing the prospect of the mano-a-mano portion of the 2020 presidential campaign, have already learned that previous complainers about the negativity, underhandedness, and attack-dog nature of politics didn’t know how good they had it. Abetted by technologies that increase the reach and power of smear campaigns and by mechanisms that allow far more
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Did Communism Make the East More Culturally Stable Than the West?0
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- March 20, 2020
Communism is an oppressive totalitarian ideology that strips people of every aspect of liberty, attacks religious institutions, and has resulted in the death of over 100 million people through its sordid and bloody history. With all the horrors that Communism has rained upon the globe, it’s hard to imagine it could bring any benefit to
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Witnesses in the Cloud: Church in the Time of COVID 0
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- March 20, 2020
The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, represents a threat on many fronts: physical, mental, societal, financial, political, and so on. An oft-neglected aspect of the pandemic, however, is the strain it has placed on American religious life. In addition to the threats to our bodies and wallets, these are also “the times that try
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Viktor Frankl: Saying Yes to Life in Difficult Times 0
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- March 20, 2020
Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most powerful arguments for human dignity of the 20th Century. The author is Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant wife all perished in the camps. Frankl was astonishingly
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