Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. This phenomenon is called "preference falsification." A minor event can make the pretending stop, leading to sudden changes. This may be happening with woke ideology.
On Monday we posted about Epiphany and epiphanies, the season celebrating the revelations of Christ's identity in the Bible, plus everyday "'aha!' moments" in which "the light comes on" with a new realization that changes how you see things. What epiphanies have you experienced?
As postmodern relativism, critical theory, leftwing politics, and woke ideology took hold in academia, the hard sciences were a bulwark of objectivity. But now even the hard sciences are being infected with the ideology that has done so much damage to the humanities and social sciences.
The spectacle of so many progressives calling for the genocide of the Jews is disorienting. Surely assaulting Jewish students and vandalizing Jewish businesses go against progressive values. So how did "anti-racism" morph into "anti-semitism"?
The Australian state of Victoria has passed a law that regulates prayer, specifying what kinds of prayer are illegal and what kinds of prayer are legal.
The epiphany of the star; the epiphany of the incarnation; a literary epiphany; and a political epiphany.
On Twelfth Night, the last day of Christmas, some final Christmas leftovers: Santa Claus vs. Artemis, The geneaologies of Christmas, and what Christmas did to the family.
Before we leave the topic of looking back and looking forward, we should consider one more aspect of the year that has just departed: What good things happened in 2023?
Pope Francis has approved a policy that will allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples, as long as it doesn't look like a wedding. Some say this is nothing new, but the ruling makes some big changes. How this will affect even Protestants.
We made our predictions for 2024, but other people have been making predictions too. In addition, there are a few things ahead of us in the coming year that we know will happen.
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