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Technology is reshaping the human creature. I have been warning about this for the past ten years. There is of course nothing that can be done on a large scale; we aren’t going to turn off smartphones or shut down the Internet. I’m not trying to suggest you “get off the grid.” However, you must…
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“Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.” As I wrote after Easter, our culture has taken its negative turn over the past 40-60 years largely as we have abandoned moral absolutes…what Lewis calls “objective values.” Later he wrote that one of his critics, someone that Lewis perceived…
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In June of the year 2000, Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone. As the subtitle stated clearly, the book was about “The Collapse and Revival of American Community.” Unfortunately for Dr. Putnam, in many respects, the book’s success was on the collapse part because, 16 years later, the revival part has failed to materialize. In fact,…