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Bowditch, Dabney, and Developing Critical Thinking Skills

My 12 year-old son and his 10 year-old sister and I are currently reading Carry On Mr. Bowditch, by Jean

For many particular reasons, I felt the strong urge to get away from the urban sprawl that had been creeping

Just because people share history, geography, genetics and possess linguistic similarities doesn’t mean they don’t prefer each other dead. I

The Roman Empire is perhaps the most famous empire in human history. It was not nearly the most massive (its

One of the best living sociologists of religion is Rodney Stark. Stark is an interesting fellow. Born in North Dakota

In a comment to one of Prof. Smith’s recent Orthosphere articles, I wrote the following: Back in the mid-’90s I

Jussie Smollett was recently found guilty on five felony counts of lying to police and disorderly conduct. He was sentenced

Three months before his death in 1274, Thomas Aquinas had a revelation that so affected him that he stopped his

I have grown weary of hearing that “love is love” and we should just accept the phrase (and its ramifications)

There has been a disturbing amount of sentiment expressed regarding Ukraine in the past week. The general line of argument