A stage version of the beloved holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has sparked a constitutional controversy at a Little Rock, Ark. grade school. Students at Terry Elementary School had been invited to attend an upcoming performance of the show at Agape Church. Teachers sent home letters informing parents that a school bus would shuttle … Continue reading
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THE DESIRE FOR CHANGE
What drives the minds of revolutionaries and fanatics and fuels the fires of mass movements? The following post is excerpts from the 1951 book, The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer. The quotes are all taken from chapter 1, “The Desire for Change”. The book is a study of the mindset that leads to mass movements. Today, mass … Continue reading
“WHAT IF?” and “Morning-after pills offered to NYC high school students”
New York City quietly launched a pilot program last year that allows a school nurse or doctor to dispense free emergency contraceptive pills and birth control pills to girls at 13 public high schools. High schools nationwide have distributed condoms for years, but the New York City program may be one of the first to … Continue reading
Excerpt From -“John Henry Newman: A Saint for Today”, by Jim Tonkowich
Delivering a lecture in 1879, Newman described liberalism: Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another…. It teaches that all religions are to be tolerated, for all are a matter of opinion. Revealed religion [biblical Christianity] is not a truth, … Continue reading
The Conclusion of Russell Kirk’s 1992 essay — Civilization Without Religion?
What ails modern civilization? “In short, it appears to me that our culture labors in an advanced state of decadence; that what many people mistake for the triumph of our civilization actually consists of powers that are disintegrating our culture; that the vaunted “democratic freedom” of liberal society in reality is servitude to appetites and … Continue reading