Month: April 2014

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World Vision and Evangelicals flip-flop, hurt needy
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World Vision and Evangelicals flip-flop, hurt needy

                On March 25, the United States branch of World Vision announced that it would hire individuals in same-sex marriages. World Vision reversed the policy change one day later after protests from donors and the Evangelical community at large.   On March 25 and 26, World Vision lost...

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Hillsdale should have a shop class

The floorboards in my car are rusting and rotting out and I haven’t the faintest clue how to fix them. Yet I can design a society from the ground up and discuss G.W.F. Hegel, economic coercion, and New Jersey education policy. The only time I’ve ever built a birdhouse I fit the pieces together so...

Call your mom
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Call your mom

Call your mom while you’re at college. It took me four months, a reminder from the dean, and a nasty email to figure that out. In fact, do it every week, your life will improve. If I am truthful, that single injunction is sufficient advice for this whole piece. But heck, I’m a graduating senior,...

Searching for Life and Light: Dillard and Robinson
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Searching for Life and Light: Dillard and Robinson

In this semester’s “Life and Light” column, I have explored authors who have, in some form, responded to the literary and cultural modernism of roughly the past century. Rather than asking the tradition’s questions — What is God? What is Man? And what has each to do with the other? —the modern finds himself severed...

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Nonprofits won’t fund roads

        Sixth in a series   Asking nonprofits for payments in lieu of taxes is a legal option to generate road-funds but not advisable, according to Hillsdale Attorney Kevin Shirk. A payment in lieu of taxes or PILOT is a voluntary contract a tax-exempt nonprofit may agree to pay a city to...