Pride is defined in the dictionary as “a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements” or “consciousness of one’s own dignity.” By those definitions, pride sounds like a good thing. Take pride in what you’ve accomplished. Take pride in who you are. That is certainly what society tells us to do. […]
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The issue of abortion is front and center again after the leaked report of the Supreme Court opinions on overturning Roe v. Wade. In response, the pro-abortion crowd is now protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, clearly violating federal law by using intimidation in order to sway a legal opinion. Democrats in the
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Disney has recently spoken out against a newly signed law in Florida and it has caused quite the outrage among many parents. The Florida law, called Parental Rights in Education, has been renamed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. The purpose of the law is to prohibit schools from instructing on sexual orientation
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This past weekend Christians celebrated “Resurrection Sunday,” also known as Easter. It is the day we rejoice in knowing that Jesus resurrected, the central point of Christianity. Christians believe that it is only by the resurrection of Jesus that the punishment owed for our sins has been paid and that redemption for humankind is available.
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The Jewish celebration of Passover begins this Friday, and though I am not Jewish, it will be my third time observing this particular feast with my family. While it started as a means to teach my children about the history of this feast instituted at the time of Moses and about the Last Supper Jesus
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Having been raised in the church, I have heard numerous sermons, Sunday school lessons, and Wednesday night events that have encouraged the congregation to go out and invite our lost friends to church. Bulletins were always stuffed with invitations to all kinds of church activities. You could just hand someone a slip of paper with
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I was asked an interesting question at the end of a lecture I was giving several weeks ago. A person was wondering if Christians should believe in karma. While karma might be a Hindu term, the concept permeates a lot more than just Hindu temples and meditation. We all tend to gravitate toward the idea
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As a calculus teacher, I have found that many times my students don’t always struggle with the calculus concepts but struggle with concepts from lower-level math that should have been mastered prior to calculus. Oftentimes their mistakes aren’t in taking an integral or finding a derivative but in simplifying a radical or combining fractions. There
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When Charles Darwin first published his theory of macroevolution (descent with modification from one common ancestor) in 1859, he outlined three main processes that would be the driving force of evolutionary change. To him, macroevolution was the inevitable result of random, genetic mutations that produce a change in the species that is preserved by natural
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In our world today where it seems change is the only constant thing or maybe where it seems things are spinning out of control, there is still the constancy and order of the universe. While it’s probably not something that is given much thought, no matter what craziness happens in the world, gravity is still
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