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Let me begin with a confession: American democracy is not dead. That would be too clean, too dramatic. What has actually happened is considerably more embarrassing. American democracy has slowly, enthusiastically, and with enormous donations been converted into the world’s most expensive online fandom. A place where, much like fans arguing over musicians or movie…
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Teaching in rural America, if boiled down, is rooted in tension rather than tradition: certainty and inquiry. While this is, of course, my view on the subject, I still believe it holds true in most contexts. This tension, for example, draws most strongly from pragmatism, particularly the work of John Dewey, alongside elements of humanism and reconstructionism. Dewey’s insistence…
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Bibliography and Endnotes at the bottom of the manuscript. If you have an addiction to the news, as I do, you may have heard the term ‘Christian Zionism’ being thrown around. Now, it’s a term that can mean A LOT, and comes in many flavors, so I figured I would break it down for you. So,…
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It is quite easy to be a clown; you put a hat on. You paint a face, honk a horn. Even then, clowns aren’t very funny. What is somehow treated as more comical than a clown is fighting a bulls*** war for another country. Oh, wait, that isn’t funny at all. It’s stupid. For the…
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Recently, I have had a falling out with my belief in Jesus of Nazareth. It is not that I no longer believe in God, or in the figure (and divinity) of Jesus, but rather that I have been moving toward a rejection of the faculties of belief in him (and God) altogether. I began to fully…
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Modern society can often be seen as a rejection of what is ‘known,’ whether that ‘known’ be true or false does not matter; and instead, it is now the acceptance of what is believed. This is the thesis for my discourse. While this remains a claim without a citation, examples can justify it, for example: 1) people trusting viral social media posts…
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20–25 minutes for a thorough read. I, for one, never really cared for Charlie Kirk. Why, you might ask? Honestly, I just found him annoying (ironic). His debating style was somewhat off-putting to me; I didn’t really care for his content, and our views rarely lined up on anything, from religion to politics. Kirk was definitely ‘MAGA,’ and…
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Mary’s Life Up to the Birth of Jesus By Colin C. Caso (Footnotes are at the bottom of the manuscript). There are two types of windows in our world: uncolored windows and stained windows. Uncolored windows are clear and transparent, offering people who peer through them an unobstructed view of the world beyond. Clear, functional,…
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The central figure of the Christian Scriptures is quite clearly Jesus of Nazareth. This ‘person,’ if you will; the acclaimed Jewish messiah—or a man who got killed for his troubles—would go on to fundamentally change the world in virtually every aspect, whether his claims were ‘true,’ is not up for me to decide, but you.…
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If one decides to be religious—what defines their religion, and how? Do they have to do anything with their religion? Is it a ‘work,’ a type of faith, belief, or choice? Are they predestined for these actions? Do they need to earn ‘it,’ or are they given ‘it’? Is religion a passive encounter with the…
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