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It’s been said that the conservative political movement lives and dies on pessimism. With significant evidence that the cultural mores of our fathers are still in retreat, conservatives have
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One of the most interesting aspects of this political season is the extensive (re)thinking of the relationship between faith and politics on the conservative side. From Marvin Olasky’s
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Every now and then, someone will ask me why I blog. I'm used to rolling out answers like, "It builds the writing habit for you" and
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The One Campaign has much in common with evangelical Christians, and yet I have seen remarkably little involvement among evangelicals in their efforts. But there's some good reason
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The current featured essay at In Pursuit of Truth, the journal of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, is Phillip Harrold's "Smuggling for God: What the Emerging Church
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As Mike Huckabee has started gaining traction, the hit pieces have come so hard and fast that I haven't been able to respond to all of them. One
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Fun is the new core value. So argues Matt LaBash in a Weekly Standard piece that is more dreary than insightful. LaBash thinks it's necessary, it seems, to
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Adolescent brains, it turns out, are different from adult brains in at least one way. As neuroscientist Deborah Yurgelun-Todd has found, adolescents use a different part of their brain
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There are few books that I read (fortunately) that hit me with what I can only describe as "explosive force." In fact, Karen Horney's Neurosis and
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When I first heard about Kid Nation, the new reality tv-show by CBS, I was excited. Having been recently been made aware by Dr. Epstein about the ways our
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To make a trivial claim, it's important for us to learn from the difficult and painful experiences that we encounter. Of course, it's important to learn
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When last I wrote about GodBlogCon, I pointed out that an impending move to Saint Louis was going to make it harder to attend. The only significant obstacle to my