“Feelings don’t care about your facts!” Titania McGrath[i] The recent trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has exposed a fixation on narratives instead of facts. Narrative suggestions come from the hypnotic media: As you listen to our voices, you become more confident in your ability to synthesize all the wisdom learned here today, and integrate it into your life in a meaningful way.…
Are you less free now than a year ago? Are you currently free to flourish as a human? Are you currently told to wear a mask, stay home and wait for release from house arrest? Are you being told how you can gather with your family and your church? Are you being told that you…
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer’s money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.” Thomas Sowell…
Thus, in the conception of Humanity, the three essential aspects of Positivism, its subjective principle, its objective dogma, and its practical object, are united. Towards Humanity, who is for us the only true Great Being, we, the conscious elements of whom she is composed, shall henceforth direct every aspect of our life, individual or collective.…
A recurring diagnosis in Scripture, as the augmented title suggests, is the enlarged and unresponsive heart. We can read accounts when God brings into certain character’s lives situations which reveal the true condition of that character’s heart. I am reminded of Pharaoh and the Exodus account. Pharaoh, you will recall, wanted Israel to remain…
Headlines daily declare man’s beastly behavior. Here are just a few of today’s headlines: From the AP: “Indictment: Woman poured toilet water in roommate’s drink” From ABC News: “Husband who had blamed cold medicine pleads guilty to killing his wife, stabbing her 123 times” From Chicago Sun Times: “Saturday shootings kill 2-year-old boy, wound…
“The whole world is watching” was a chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel the evening of August 28 during the 1968 Democrat National Convention in Chicago -Wikipedia “Prologue, August 29, 1968” If you lived through the 60s as I have you will remember the numerous protests across the nation. If…
You don’t feel right. You feel unsettled and unable to sleep at night. You feel achy, restless and depressed. You wonder if there is something in the air. You feel that there is something going on but you can’t put your finger on it. One day, on the way to work, you stop for…
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