Social observers and trend-trackers are sensing a new cultural "vibe" ("the mood of a place, situation, person, etc. and the way that they make you feel"), a reaction against "Woke" and a return to belief in objective reality.
Social observers and trend-trackers are sensing a new cultural "vibe" ("the mood of a place, situation, person, etc. and the way that they make you feel"), a reaction against "Woke" and a return to belief in objective reality.
This is the place to share your thoughts, feelings, concerns, memories, and anything else you'd like to bring up regarding this holiday of holidays.
President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of President Trump, considering pardoning officials who haven't been accused of any crime. This is like churches that try to proclaim the Gospel while insisting that sinners aren't doing anything wrong.
Jesus gives a number of signs that signify that the End Times. One of them is a baffling phenomenon that has emerged quite recently: that people will consider barrenness--or by extension, not having children--to be a blessing.
Conservatives have long criticized left-wing progressives for being "woke," a term social justice activists use for waking up to the systemic oppression of marginalized groups by those in power. Now an anti-woke critic is saying that conservatives have also become woke.
Bad times for dictators. Hallucinating the news. And the UK completely bans puberty blockers for minors.
Advent does quite a bit with John the Baptist, the prophet who prepared the way for the coming of Christ. I never noticed until a recent gospel reading that John said some important things about vocation.
The killer of the health insurance CEO has been turned into a folk hero on social media. Murder should never be celebrated. But the tragedy has provoked legitimate discussions about the "delay, deny, defend" tactics by which insurance companies sometimes refuse to cover health care claims. What's the solution?
An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much more about light than did the ancient Israelites. And I'm astonished at how the scientific facts we know about light apply to the Son of God, whom the Nicene Creed describes as "Light of Light."
After World War II, the United States of America dominated the world, spreading its democracy, free markets, and technology around the globe and using its military might to defend the free world. A historian argues that Donald Trump is about to shut down the policies that led to that dominance, beginning a new less stable global era in which the USA plays a much smaller role. But is that a bad thing?
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