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One third of San Francisco public schools will be renamed in the coming months following a decision by the city’s school board to remove the names of individuals who had owned slaves, actively participated in segregation, or were colonizers.
The decision, which includes 44 school sites ... Show More
Nov 2021
There's No Good Plan to Stop 100,000 Opioid Deaths a Year
100,000 Americans died from April 2020 to April 2021 due to opioids, according to numbers released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of the deaths have come via fentanyl, which accounted for more than 75 percent of all fatalities. Most of ... Show More
1h 1m
Nov 2021
Fewer Politicians Are Seeking Compromise. Should Christians?
Last Friday, both chambers of Congress passed an infrastructure bill that will commit more than one trillion dollars to America’s deteriorating roads and bridges, making life easier for pedestrians and bikers, improving broadband access, and renovating suffering public transit sy ... Show More
1h 2m
Apr 2023
WOF 381: Why the Liberal Arts Matter
Friends, what are the liberal arts, and why are so many schools getting rid of them? A recent article in The New Yorker titled “The End of the English Major” revealed that during the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. ... Show More
25m 10s
Feb 2024
#31 Russell Moore, David French, and The After Party Curriculum: Why the Church Should Be Concerned
There’s a new small group curriculum for churches available, and you’re probably going to hear a lot about it this year because it’s both very timely and being produced and promoted by some big Christian names. It’s called The After Party, and according to its creators, it’s desi ... Show More
21m 53s
Feb 2024
Is There Always a Right Choice? Conscience, Prudence, and Natural Law |Prof. Joshua Hochschild
This lecture was given on June 21st, 2023, at Stonyhust College.
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Prof. Joshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and E ... Show More
1h 12m
Nov 2023
#27 Brooks Buser: Thirteen Years Transcribing an Unreached Language Group in Papua New Guinea, The Forgotten Great Commission, Training the Next Generation of Linguistics Missionaries
Brooks Buser is the president of Radius International and helps lead their campuses in Mexico and Taiwan. Brooks worked for 13 years among the YembiYembi people in Papua New Guinea. After developing an alphabet in the YembiYembi language, completing a translation of the New Testa ... Show More
2h 19m