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Forgiveness and ‘Tolerance’ in Charleston

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July 6, 2015July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been some coverage about the ‘forgiveness’ offered to Dylann Roof by some of the Christian parishioners of Emanuel AME church that survived his attack.  Matt Schiavenza in the The Atlantic describes this. [For some other responses as to why […]

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150 Years Later, People are Getting All Excited About the Confederate Flag

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June 27, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently, a young racist terrorist shot a bunch of people in one of Charleston’s historic black churches.  This kind of stuff happens.  But it has aroused a whole new controversy about the Confederate flag, a century and a half after […]

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Dynasties and All That

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June 16, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It will occur to the reader that I have been talking about dynasties and this and that without giving any clear background on them.  The time has come to clarify. DYNASTIES In case you don’t know, a dynasty is a […]

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‘Freedom From Speech’ and Freedom From Other Things

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May 18, 2015May 8, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

“Freedom of speech” has been a slogan in America and the Western World for some time.  But how to explain the rise of “political correctness,” which has not much affected our civil law, but has affected policies on campus, and, […]

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Before Generalizing about American Culture, Travel a Bit

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April 1, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Bosworth, author of the new The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America:  The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, writes about the effect of constant cyberspace and television on the American character.  But is there anything distinctly American about […]

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Surveying Marriage vs. Cohabitation: Not a Binary Choice Any More

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March 30, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have been following the Institute for American Values, led by David Blankenhorn, and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, led by W. Bradford Wilcox.  They have been working, among other things, on the fortunes of children born […]

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LARCS, Abstinence, and Other Matters of Education

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March 26, 2015June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have read Isabel Sawhill’s new book, Generation Unbound.  In this, she tells us that she would encourage young people to be ‘planners’ rather than ‘drifters’ when it comes to relationships, marriage, and child bearing.  [Among other implications of this, […]

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C.S. Lewis and the World of Modern Technology

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January 22, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

C.S. Lewis, in his important apologetic work The Problem of Pain, tried to envision an alternative pain-free universe [Chapter 2]: The permanent nature of wood which enables us to use it as a beam also enables us to use it […]

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So-Called “Bro-Country” is a New Thing, and an Old Thing

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January 20, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I spent a few days in Jackson, Mississippi, last fall, and for the interest of the thing had a country music station on in my car, because you never know.  It turned out a large number of the songs were […]

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The Strange American Inversion of the Liturgical Year

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January 6, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Historically in Christian liturgy, Advent was supposed to be a sort of penitential time, a little Lent leading up to Christmas, as Lent led up to Easter. Anglican hymnbooks have an Advent section and a Christmas section. Songs like “O […]

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