A healthy, happy family… the few who truly have that know what a blessing it can be. It’s something we want for ourselves, something we want to give to our children … something America increasingly just doesn’t have. It’s not just about the ease of divorce – it’s about a lack of respect, mutual affection, and care among family members. Seniors get dumped in nursing homes, never to be visited again. Children are neglected in favor of work and social engagements. Relatives no longer enjoy spending time together and instead seem to be united only
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Sourdough bread is the oldest form of leavened bread in the world, dating back to ancient Egypt. Sourdough uses a lactobacillus and yeast culture rather than cultivated yeasts as a leavening agent. The lactic acid created as a by-product of the lactobacilli gives sourdough bread its distinctive tangy flavor, while the yeast provides the leavening
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Dear Joel,

What plants should be grown in the home garden to feed a small flock of chickens so commercial feed is not needed? How do you recommend accomplishing this? Thank you!

-Laura W.

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American citizenship means hard work, temperance, morality, and the habit of right living. —Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute Business norms and values in the early social studies came, not from industry, but from a school whose special task was education of a docile work force. —Michael Lybarger, “Origins of Modern Social Studies” (1983) The Changing of the Guard Older Americans may still remember when they learned History in school.  I was fortunate to have history back in high school in the seventies with an amazing history teacher named Bob Keuhl.  I still share
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It is this, the human ability to create and transmit culture, that differentiates us as humans from the rest of the animal world. —Nancy Jarvis, “What Is a Culture?” Religion and Culture Culture is religion externalized.  Or put the other way around, our religious commitments always manifest themselves in our values and choices. They also find expression in our technology, science, and art.  We live out what we hold highest in our work and play.  Life, then, in its fullness is religion, because all people “will walk everyone in the name of his god” (Mic.
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All of mankind has a basic internal “heart commitment” to someone or something. And that commitment shapes our values, our priorities, and our choices. When a nation or people share the same commitment, that commitment structures their society and creates their culture. All of us, whether we admit it or not… live in terms of the demands of our ultimate commitments. Our god not only defines good and evil for us (Gen. 3:5); but also defines our very reality. The Triune God of Scripture, however, claims to be the only real and legitimate God…

The Imitation of Christ —a book by Thomas à Kempis (1418) Religion and Power There are three different religious approaches to community and freedom.  The first abandons politics and society at large in the name of religion.  The communities it creates are small, and the degree of personal freedom that each community allows may be
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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive Nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. —Ronald Reagan Missing Pieces The men who wrote Scripture were prophets, not technological or cultural historians.  Their concern was the unfolding of God’s covenant
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