The West
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The Minority on the Mayflower

The Minority on the Mayflower

Century Watch: This Year in History   1620: THE MINORITY ON THE MAYFLOWER A small group of dissenters from the Church of England, known as the Separatists, embarked on two ships, the Mayflower and Speedwell, bound for the New World. The Speedwell sprang a leak,...

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Fighting the Naked Emperor: A Review of Live Not By Lies

Fighting the Naked Emperor: A Review of Live Not By Lies

Totalitarianism at Our Doorstep By TY FISCHER and JOE GERBER We inhabit a world of lies. They are lies that command high places, and which Christians pay a severe price for transgressing. The most timely of fairy tales for our day is Hans Christian Andersen’s “The...

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Research Shows Benefits of a Classical Christian Education

Research Shows Benefits of a Classical Christian Education

Cranach: The Blog of Veith By GENE VEITH Cranach: The Blog of Veith discusses the  ACCS Good Soil Report. "What struck me most, though, is the data for 'outlook on life'; that is, for their general happiness and mental health.  The classically educated adults scored...

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Can We Talk About  What Happened In D.C.  The Other Day?

Can We Talk About What Happened In D.C. The Other Day?

Jan 8, 2021 This article first appeared on Joshua Gibbs’ “The Cedar Room” blog on the CiRCE Institute’s website. See the original article here. For more articles like this one, visit: www.CirceInstitute.com STUDENT: Can we talk about what happened in the capital...

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Freedom to Worship and Free Speech for UK and US Churches

Freedom to Worship and Free Speech for UK and US Churches

Along with recent news, here are some updates on challenges Christian communities are facing both at home and abroad. Christians in the UK and US are facing similar obstacles as they seek to serve the communities they are in. Please keep them in your prayers. In the...

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Great Ideas

Great Ideas

Revisit Summer 2019 -- 8 Ideas You Can't Live Without. Want to dig deeper or find a new perspective? Need a discussion starter for a Bible study, discussion group, or class? Community Group Kit See the Articles View the PDF Are you with a school? Order copies for...

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In Defense of the West

In Defense of the West

By KATHARINE SAVAGE Where I live, mention the Great Books or the Western tradition, and you are likely given a polite sneer, at best. At worst, you’ll hear the all too familiar string of adjectives: “racist,” “post-colonial,” “bigoted.” And this is a real conundrum...

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Powerful and Dangerous: Men Are Not Angels

Powerful and Dangerous: Men Are Not Angels

Men are not Angels Thomas Hobbes, describing a condition without government called the “state of nature,” said that the life of man without authority is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Human beings are naturally ambitious, greedy, interested in their own...

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Kings Who are Subjects and Subjects Who are Kings

Kings Who are Subjects and Subjects Who are Kings

In the year 410 AD, a new “order” for governing nations emerged, not from a king, but from a theologian. His idea remained with us into the twentieth century. Its slow loss threatens our freedom in the twenty-first. The sacking of Rome by Aleric the Visigoth inspired...

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