Posts in Culture
Exploring Culture Through Two Lenses

This article is a brief exploration of culture through two lenses. First, we will look at theologian Steven Bryan’s description of six possible responses to the challenge of multiple cultures in one sovereign polity. Then, we will discuss sociologist Phillip Rieff’s four stages of human culture.

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Progress, Conservation, and Teleology

Today’s political climate is the culture war between the conservatives and progressives, broadly speaking. While there is much nuance to the political issues and the varying positions, the idea of conservative versus progressive is a fine heuristic to use for the purposes of considering a few things about progressivism.

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Female Runner Recounts Experience Competing Against Transgender. "Devastating."

A high school girl’s track runner, Chelsea Mitchell, spoke out against the increasing tendency to allow biological men to compete against women in high school sports. Mitchell said that allowing transgender women (i.e., men who think they are women) to compete against women has been very harmful to both self-esteem and future college sports possibilities.

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Children Assault Bus-Jacker with Questions; He Lets Them Go

On May 6th, an Army recruit went AWOL and proceeded to hijack a school and attempted force the driver at gunpoint to drive to the next town. "The kids were the ones that actually got the gentleman off of the bus, and they pretty much had my back as much as my concerns were with them. And at the end when they started questioning him, it seemed to have frustrated him…”

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Cultural Warfare Against a Dictatorship

The Cuban Communist dictatorship stands today as one of the longest-lasting dictatorship in the world…. Even though Cuba, one of the last remaining communist nations in the world, cannot keep their finances in the black and its people suffer from privation of the most basic goods (such as food, medicine, and personal hygiene items) as well as an astounding disregard for human rights, it remains remarkably free of unrest.

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Parent fights Back Against Private School's Critical Race Curriculum

The parent of a young student at a New York private school has published a scathing letter against the school’s implementation of Critical Race Theory into course curriculum….Why is a private school in New York City important? First, it shows us that people across the nation, not just in the Bible Belt, are sick of bad ideas that fuel racial tensions.

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