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Is Believing in God Worth It?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- June 16, 2026
One of the most misunderstood “arguments” for the existence of God is popularly known as Pascal’s Wager. But Pascal’s Wager is not an argument for the existence of God at all. Instead, it’s an argument in favor of pursuing the questions of, and relationship with, God. Pascal’s Wager cannot act as a replacement for the
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Beauty, Truth, Goodness … and Alzheimer’s 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Health, Literature
- June 16, 2026
Every once in a while, a piece of writing strikes me like lightning illuminating a dark landscape. In her essay, “Sunlight Through Stained Glass,” Monica Seeley recounts the descent of her older sister into the dungeons of Alzheimer’s, yet that brief synopsis hides the lightning of her prose. While still in elementary school, Seeley lost both
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What to Do When Good People Disagree 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- June 15, 2026
The discussion of widespread division in our nation is hardly a revelation at this point. Liberals look down on conservatives as backwards and unintelligent curmudgeons, while conservatives view liberals as reckless libertines gallivanting toward destruction. But the chasm of disagreement doesn’t just cut between liberals and conservatives; increasingly, even people of the same political party,
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Generation AI and the Recovery of the Human Person 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- June 15, 2026
For most of my life, technological advancements were a given. As a member of Generation Z, I grew up hearing that every new platform would make us more connected, every new device make us more efficient, and every new innovation make us more liberated. The future was always presented as something frictionless: Faster is better,
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Making Morality Great Again 0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2026
It was a hot and muggy evening when I walked toward my car to head home from church the other night. To my surprise, I found the back window of my car looking like the molasses crinkle cookies I’ve made since I was a child. Someone had apparently taken a hammer to it when I
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Singing the Songs of the Civil War for America’s 250 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2026
Back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, my brother and I used to play Civil War in the fields and woods surrounding our house. Several other “troopers” would show up from time to time, and we fired away at each other with toy rifles, dirt clods, and stones. When it rained, we’d break out
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