Society & Culture

Three mainline Protestant clergy issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, saying it “violates the values and vision that are basic to Christian faith.”

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Carl Trueman: As humanities curricula have come to be shaped by the psychologized politics of our therapeutic culture, so that which challenges or disturbs must be kept at a distance or discounted. Is it any surprise that educational administrators reflect this in their approach to today’s student protests?

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Vatican: Get time off in purgatory by following Pope on Twitter

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“Unanimous victory for religiously affiliated health care groups will affect 100 lawsuits.”

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Douglas Wilson: [T]he issue is not whether the West has ever faced greater threats. Of course we have—much greater threats. But that is a different question from whether we have ever been in as great a danger. We are in great peril, not because the threat is so much greater, but rather because we are so much weaker.

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Kathee’s Uncle Jack Hersant died in a Kamikaze attack on the USS Aaron Ward (1945)

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Judeo-Christian influence is strong at The House of Ideas. But perhaps more constant in the Marvel Universe than traditional religious narratives or concepts is the notion that many of humanity’s supernatural and mythological traditions descend not from some sort of divinity, but from powerful alien forces.

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The Church has no control over how easy it is to get opioid prescriptions and only limited control over access to help for mental illness. But by nurturing a full Christian life we also reduce social isolation and eliminate the mentality that we should always be pain-free.

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A campaign speech by General James Garfield, who became the 20th President of the United States a few months later. Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Printed Ephemera Collection.

New York, August 6, 1880

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Sign of the end?

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