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A worn wooden chair with greenish paint and a yellowed seat, standing alone in an empty room.

Seeing and Teaching

by Guest Author, Edmund Miller The Gospel of John tells the story of Nicodemus, a Pharisee, who goes out at night to find and to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he says, “we know you are a teacher come from God, for no one can work the signs that you work unless God is with him”(3:2)….

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A vintage poster with a green background featuring a man's face with his mouth taped shut. Text reads: "CLOSED FOR THE DURATION, LOOSE TALK CAN COST LIVES." The poster is a World War II propaganda warning against careless speech."

Out-Loud Discussions

In past generations, communication was limited. Society was largely agrarian and the modes of communication and the technology to deliver such to people outside one’s immediate circle was limited. It wasn’t non-existent, nor was it undesirable. Quite the contrary. Human beings are social animals and all have a desire to communicate and need to communicate. In modern times, it was the…

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A man and a young girl are making cookies together in a kitchen. The table is covered with dough cutouts, and they appear to be using cookie cutters. The scene is in black and white.

What Our Grandparents Have Always Done

I’ve been following opera and Italian food expert Fred Plotkin for a number of years now. Politically, philosophically (in large measure) and theologically, we would likely find ourselves opponents. He is a self-described “pleasure activist and egalitarian,” whereas I assent to an orthodox understanding of a divinely ordered hierarchy in the universe and recognize–in a phrase that may…

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A drone flying over rolling hills of green vineyards under a hazy sky, capturing the agricultural landscape.

The Rise of the Machines (and the Fall of Man)

A little over sixty years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien defined what he meant by a machine: By the [ word “machine”] I intend all use of external plans or devices (apparatus) instead of development of the inherent inner powers or talents — or even the use of these talents with the corrupted motive of dominating: bulldozing the real world,…

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The End of the Soldier

Chesterton famously commented, “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”  In this pithy statement, Chesterton encapsulates the end or purpose of a soldier.  We saw this honored with the posthumous awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Army Chaplain…

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