Western Civilization

Conservatives Need to Support the Arts. Here’s Why.0
- Culture, Education, Politics, Western Civilization
- November 17, 2025
“Don’t lose your soul.” During my senior year of high school, I heard this warning over and over when I shared with my conservative Christian community that I planned to major in theatre alongside English literature. “The arts are dangerous nowadays.” This December, I will receive my Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration
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Remember, Remember, the Dead in November 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- November 13, 2025
As November sucks the color from the landscape and wind stirs the crackling leaves of the graveyards into little flurries, I stand under swaying pine branches, surrounded by headstones, and offer a few prayers. The cemetery is wrapped in a sacred stillness and silence, the kind of silence that surrounds mysteries too deep for words.
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Christians Make the Best Art 1
- Entertainment, Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- November 12, 2025
Imagine a friend has invited you over to watch a newly released movie. “It’s a Christian movie,” he says, “but it’s actually really good.” Maybe he’s talking about “Nefarious.” Maybe “Jesus Revolution.” Maybe he’s recently discovered “God’s Not Dead 2” or “Heaven Is for Real.” Whatever the film, it speaks volumes that your friend feels the need
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Teaching the Past to Restore Hope for the Future 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, History, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 11, 2025
Recent chatter on social media featured a young woman telling her story of how political developments in the United States encouraged her to flee her home country and settle in Costa Rica. But Costa Rica wasn’t the paradise she envisioned. With the value of hindsight, she has come to feel the absence of the blessings and benefits
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Reading Aloud Isn’t Just for Kids 1
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- November 7, 2025
On my honeymoon, my husband and I began reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” aloud to each other as we drove. Some may deem that a nerdy way of spending one’s newlywed days, but we enjoyed it, and our enjoyment led us to read through the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy within
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Making Sense of Millennial Mid-Life Muddling 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 5, 2025
In Rebecca Serle’s novel “In Five Years,” narrator and protagonist Dannie Cohan follows the path she set for herself as an adolescent. She becomes a lawyer with no ambitions for the courtroom, tackling instead the crisp, clear language of the law and contracts. “It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning—with
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