...I'm not saying that you can't find those emotions or that satisfaction in other kinds of music, but my belief is that they're heightened in the classics. The great composers knew how to build with sound...

...Happiness is at least partially about how connected a person is to other humans, particularly through the mechanisms of family, faith and community. Liberals are less likely than to be tied to these institutions.

Islam’s ancient hate for — and paranoia against — the Christian cross is making news again.

...Nearly all faith leaders want to prevent abuse and protect kids. But many don’t know where to start. In actuality, many of the most effective safety practices are simple and can be implemented at little cost.

...Social Darwinism asserted that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply not only to biological species developing over long geologic times, but also to human societies and social classes.

...The interviews revealed that language describing climate change as a crisis and an urgent threat was met with suspicion by many participants. The disconnect between crisis rhetoric and their own beliefs...

Oregon’s drug legalization “hasn’t gone as planned,” according to The Atlantic, and has been “an unmitigated disaster,” according to Oregon Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West...

...It’s increasingly difficult to remember our particularity in the digital age. The Internet leads to “context collapse.” It places into a space that is intrinsically faceless and lacks geographic borders.

The middle class in the U.S. has been steadily shrinking for decades, but in recent years our leaders have greatly accelerated that process. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 they absolutely flooded the system with new...

What is the long-term Democrat strategy that requires such short-term malodorous skullduggery?

...It is a weighty issue to send a president to prison—an act that has never happened. In an emotional age, Democrats eager to send Trump to prison should not underestimate the burden of that decision.

...Almost every institution that provided companionship — marriage, children, church, service clubs (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, etc.) — has been in decline.

...he issue that perplexes and surprises me the most is that very few church leaders and members are even acknowledging the death of evangelism in their congregations and denominations.

...There are not enough foster parents in America. And yet, there are ministries which emphasize that if even one family in every church in America became foster parents, we’d solve the problem.

There comes a time in the life cycle of every cult when things become so insane that, one way or another, the whole operation falls apart.

Vaccination against COVID-19 became a prerequisite of travel to many countries... It remains unclear as to whether or not COVID-19 vaccination has resulted in fewer deaths from COVID-19.

People always say things were better in the 1950s, don’t they? But after learning what kindergartners were expected to do back then, you might not be so sure.

...If we don’t know what something is, it is unidentified. If it’s in the air, it’s flying. If its size is substantial, then it’s an object. So there you go — there are UFOs! But, are they extraterrestrial? I highly doubt it.

It ain’t a pretty scene when mean people are dying.

...Claiming she has an assignment and a word from the Lord, she preaches about casting off the “spirit of religion” and how refusing to cast off that spirit will result in a failure to bring revival.