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Whatever it is that allows one to watch that speech and analyze it in any serious way is something I just don’t have.
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I love singing on Sundays with the Aquinas Institute at the Princeton University Chapel led by Peter Carter. My husband It’s also in the choir. And I’m taking private voice lessons with one of the choir leaders!
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C.S. Lewis on why we must read old books — and why history matters…
From The Weight of Glory (1941)
This is just the sort of pretentiousness I absolutely abhor from the literary world. You can’t choose ONE piece that you deem worthy? Not ONE piece out of the thousands that you received—likely from far better writers than these “editors” themselves?
Traditional lit mags need to die. Stop giving these absolute incompetents your money and…
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I’ve seen other people try this, so I figured I’d give it a go.
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Christians who love Tradition, the Ancient Church, and the Church Fathers + Mothers
Lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien + C.S. Lewis
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This is as far back as we can get good data on white evangelicals.
In 1960:
61% were Democrats
30% were Republicans
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Truly staggering to read a piece about the trans issue today which DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the two core areas of disagreement - unfairness in sports, protection of women in intimate spaces and prisons, and medical experiments on children with gender dysphoria. Just pure propaganda and lies. Using the history of marriage equality to defend …
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C.S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer.
It is rather instructive…
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Tom Wolfe thought brain scans marked the death of the soul. Not so much, as @SpencerKlavan (no relation) explains in "The Fractals Declare the Glory of God," at the New Jerusalem.
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