One of the biggest draws to the Super Bowl every year is getting to see the commercials. There is usually much discussion after the game over which commercial was the funniest or the sappiest or had the most celebrity appearances. But there is always some commercial that generates conversation based on its controversy. Interestingly, the […]
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For Christmas this year, my dad gave each of my boys a small compass. They are all at the age where learning to use a compass would be a good skill to have. Of course, in order to properly use a compass for navigation, they need to understand a little bit about how a compass
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A few weeks ago, China revealed that it would be taking on a 10-year project to rewrite the Bible. It is part of the government’s efforts to make religions more Chinese in nature and more consistent with the goals of the communist Chinese government. As an example of their efforts, the Chinese government has decided to change
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In the halls of academia, professors study the changing philosophical ideas from the past and analyze their affect on current thinking. As philosophy has shifted from rationalism to modernism to post-modernism, philosophers now consider our society to be post-truth. Post-truth describes a society that doesn’t just think truth cannot be known, but that truth does
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As we enter into this Easter season, it is clearly important to understand the true reason why we celebrate Easter. In our culture, much of this holiday is either focused on spring as the birth of new life or on the Easter bunny as bringing special gifts of chocolate and candies to children. But that
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There was a very disturbing article last week in the local news. In a nearby small town with a population of only 38,000, a woman was arrested and charged with capital murder – in the stabbing death of her 8-year old son. Understandably, this has rocked the entire community. In response to the statement released
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In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about a revival that took place at Asbury University in central Kentucky last month. It began on February 8 as people remained at the conclusion of the Sunday morning service to continue to worship. Videos shared on Instagram and TikTok of people still
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Several weeks ago, as I was preparing to go on a road trip with my family, I stopped into a discount store to purchase some road trip entertainment for the kids, things like crossword puzzle books, word searches, and coloring books. I found a long area in the middle of the store that had all
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The Gulag Archipelago, written in 1973 by the Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, gives a firsthand account of the Soviet Union’s prison system that began under the rule of Lenin and expanded under the harsh dictatorship of Stalin. Solzhenitsyn experienced this brutality in 1945 when he was arrested for making derogatory remarks about Stalin in letters he
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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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