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For the past several months, the idea of our divided country has been most manifest by simply scrolling my social media feed. Perhaps it comes from who I am and who I choose to befriend, but my feed can give you whiplash as the post bounce back and forth between hard right and hard left.…
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“The proper function of reason is not merely to make true judgments concerning a world of neutral non-moral facts, but to enable the rational individual to make proper contact with reality….a state of being that requires not only true belief but the transformation of the will and affections needed to put us in touch with,…
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In J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece The Lord of the Rings, he describes a critical moment of transition from desperation to hope in the attack on the city of Gondor with the phrase “the wind is changing.” Previously, Tolkien had suggested that the “bad guy” of the story, Sauron, had even been able to control the weather sending bleak…