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Post of the Week
R. J. Moeller’s post on C. S. Lewis’s double life as a Christian author and a complicated man.
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There’s More to Life Than Being Successful
Listening to the Acculturated podcast with Rod Dreher, which we published yesterday, made me wonder about some of the cultural…
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How Technology Is Killing Human Connections, Happy Hour Edition
Will everything one day be sacrificed on the altar of convenience and efficiency? When it comes to how we interact…
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Post of the Week
Mark Tapson’s excellent piece on cooking merits our Post of the Week award. Check out his thoughts on what he…
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The Benefits of Optimism
Have you seen or read Silver Linings Playbook and/or Life of Pi? If you haven’t, I couldn’t recommend them more. My latest…
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Tupac Shakur & Helping Men Become Men
I recently came across an old song by Tupac Shakur, “Keep Ya Head Up.” It was another reminder of a phenomenon…
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Why Have Kids? They Make Life Meaningful
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Could Today’s “American Girl” Be Any Blander?
Have you read any of the American Girl books? I just finished the 2013 Girl of the Year installment about…
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Zero Recognition for Zero Dark Thirty
After Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards, many noticed the Oscars’ silence in response to this year’s film directed by…
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Jennifer Lawrence: From Cute to Vulgar
by Ashley E. McGuire
Jennifer Lawrence, Hollywood’s new “It girl,” appears to have charmed the world with her post-Oscar press conference,…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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Cancer Survivor Melissa Etheridge Says Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy “Wasn’t a Brave Choice”–Mail Online
When Angelina Jolie underwent a preventative…
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye Need to “Focus” on Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz–UsMagazine
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary…
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Buddhist Monks Are Having a Louis Vuitton Scandal–New York Magazine
A viral video showing Buddhist monks…
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Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity–The Atlantic
When a Christian foundation interviewed college…
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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His 11-Year-Old Son–Brain Pickings
“That is the way to learn…
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Interesting piece over at @Acculturated on the NBA Finals and what each team (loosely) represents acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… #DPRS
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What is Pop Culture? What is High Culture? acculturated.com/2013/05/08/wha… … via @Acculturated Must read!
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Watching the #NBAFinals? Read my review of the cultural implications of these two teams acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… @Acculturated #Heat #Spurs
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These pageants and tv shows about pageants continue to be a financial boon at the expense of female dignity. acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis… #tcot
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