A pastor from Cartago, previously acquitted, will face a second trial for alleged sexual crimes involving a minor. The trial will take place later this year.
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What little warmth the sun afforded on this short winter day evaporates as it reaches the treetops. Sitting under the dying sycamore tree, sparrows and juncos come close as a…
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Here’s a chicken-egg problem for which we are both the chickens and the eggs. Does the severity of a crisis determine the adequacy of a response, or does the inadequacy…
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Perhaps in part because I haven’t had children, I recoil when I hear a parent say something like, “kids questions reflect that time between innocence and experience.”
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One of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” I highly recommend the novella, as well as an excellent 1962 film…
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Our worldviews aren’t just about how we see the world; they’re even more basically about how we view nature. Take this statement, which is hilariously wrongheaded on both counts: “Babies…