Religion

Roughly 2 in 3 of America’s 12th-graders Can’t Read. Here’s Why.30
- Education, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 10, 2025
I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far
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More Prayers, Not Less, Are Needed to Transform Our Culture 24
- Uncategorized, Featured, Politics, Religion
- September 9, 2025
The recent August school shooting during a Catholic Mass in Minneapolis prompted public arguments about the efficacy of prayer. For example, former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki and current Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt exchanged some heated remarks on prayers offered up for the victims of the shooting. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” Psaki tweeted. “Enough with the
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On Contentment and Ceaseless Prayer 27
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Religion, Uncategorized
- September 4, 2025
In American writer Wendell Berry’s novel “Hannah Coulter,” the titular character reflects as she grows older on her upbringing and her adult life. She also thinks often about her adult children, who have all moved away from their home and their widowed mother. In one significant section of reflection on the past and its failures,
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‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ – Poster Child of Deconstructionism 24
- Entertainment, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 19, 2025
For every version that rolls out, “Jesus Christ Superstar” merits accusations of blasphemy. The latest version, performed in early August at the Hollywood Bowl, is no exception. But this blasphemous rock opera should also receive criticism for its artistic failure. Not surprisingly, it gets resounding praise instead, lauded for its uneven, wild, challenging nature. “It’s
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Speaking of Conspiracy Theories 31
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 18, 2025
There’s not a cloud to be seen as I drive with my seven-year-old son – apart from the five unnatural lines left behind by planes in a grid pattern, that is. “Why do people want to control the weather?” my son ponders aloud, looking up at the unnatural lines. Weeks prior, we saw similar trails
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The Debt We Owe to Suffering 41
- Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 15, 2025
In L. B. Cowan’s “Streams in the Desert,” a book of meditations given me by a friend, a recent entry has this line: “Who can estimate how much we owe to our suffering and pain?” That’s a sentiment that runs against the American grain in this century. In 2023, for instance, some 60 million Americans sought treatment
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