Religion

Why Is Christianity Increasingly Attractive to Men?14
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 17, 2025
Holy Week is upon us once again, the week which starts with little children hitting one another with the palm branches they received at church and culminates eight days later as those same angels sit “in their Easter bonnet(s) with all the frills upon it.” For many Americans, Holy Week is no more than these
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DOGE and the Synergy of All Things 15
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion
- March 26, 2025
“It was a wicked and wild wind/Blew down the doors to let me in,” goes the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida.” Released in 2008, it includes the reflections of a deposed king as he looks back on his reign, including the time mentioned above, the moment that he took power. The line always interested me
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The Kids Are Alright – An Old Guy’s Take on Young Adults 12
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 24, 2025
I’m the old guy. Threescore and ten years, that traditional marker for old age, disappeared from my rearview mirror a while ago. The U.S. Census Bureau defines young adults as those between the ages of 18 and 34. These are the men and women who will soon command our politics, our economy, and our culture.
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Good Life, Good Death 11
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 11, 2025
Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives
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Charity Begins at Home: The Case of Mrs. Jellyby vs. JD Vance 4
- Culture, Family, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 7, 2025
In Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House,” we encounter Mrs. Jellyby, a fanatical, crusading philanthropist who by correspondence and personal contacts hopes to bring education and trade to a remote part of Africa. Mrs. Jellyby spends much of her time dictating letters and memorandum to a “jaded and unhealthy-looking” girl who “seemed to have no article of
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Is Christianity Making a Comeback?5
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 4, 2025
It’s not news to report that Christianity in America has been in alarming decline for many years – even more dramatically so in Europe, a realm which once was known as Christendom. But a new Pew Research Center poll offers a heartening glimmer of hope and change. The decline of Christian America is indicative of
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