This week, gather with family. Wrap yourself in Thanksgiving warmth. Pause to reflect, watch football, and eat. And try to be grateful. Not just acknowledge Thanksgiving Day, but actually try to be grateful. Because, you may have noticed, it seems like we are not really very grateful these days. There might be a reason for that. In the last of his letters preserved in the Bible, Paul described to his young friend Timothy characteristics of…
At the close of 2020, former President Barak Obama was enjoying a fresh jolt of popularity. His memoirs had hit the digital bookshelves, he was being interviewed by nearly every news outlet, and he received the “Voice of Influence Award” from the free-speech advocacy organization, PEN America. And, not surprisingly, as he took laps around the speaking circuit, he was asked to weigh in on the leftward drift and the new, progressive agenda driving many…
Lisa Bender, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, dreams of a postmodern socialist utopia and believes that we should all aspire to a world without law enforcement. On June 8, she told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that calling the police when your home is broken into “comes from a place of privilege.” She argues that she wants a “police-free society.” Cuomo told her, “When you say you see someday being police-free that sounds aspirational, a…