John Shelton
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Policy Director at Advancing American Freedom | husband and father of 👦🏼👦🏼👧🏼👶🏼 | 📝: National Review, TGC, MereO, WORLD, & Providence | 🦬 🌊⚓️ ✝️
This family policy essay was an elaborate excuse to tell a favorite story: how my grandpa ended up in a helicopter crash after a panicking trainee pulled the wrong lever.
SPOILER: he survived and, thanks to a generous morphine drip, was "as happy as a hog."
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/get...
SPOILER: he survived and, thanks to a generous morphine drip, was "as happy as a hog."
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/get...
Civitas Institute | Research & Commentary | Getting Family Policy Wrong
Family support spending should not be the main tool for achieving or measuring family policy success.
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December 30, 2024 at 3:35 PM
This family policy essay was an elaborate excuse to tell a favorite story: how my grandpa ended up in a helicopter crash after a panicking trainee pulled the wrong lever.
SPOILER: he survived and, thanks to a generous morphine drip, was "as happy as a hog."
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/get...
SPOILER: he survived and, thanks to a generous morphine drip, was "as happy as a hog."
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/get...
The title of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" isn't just some banal reminder that Halloween comes two months before Christmas.
The nightmare is not Halloween, but a world before Christmas.
Once Christmas comes, the nightmare is finally over.
providencemag.com/2024/12/nigh...
The nightmare is not Halloween, but a world before Christmas.
Once Christmas comes, the nightmare is finally over.
providencemag.com/2024/12/nigh...
“Nightmare Before Christmas” is Absolutely a Christmas Movie - Providence
Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" is ultimately about the unavoidable enchantment that comes with the story of God choosing to dwell among men
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December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
The title of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" isn't just some banal reminder that Halloween comes two months before Christmas.
The nightmare is not Halloween, but a world before Christmas.
Once Christmas comes, the nightmare is finally over.
providencemag.com/2024/12/nigh...
The nightmare is not Halloween, but a world before Christmas.
Once Christmas comes, the nightmare is finally over.
providencemag.com/2024/12/nigh...
There's a free ebook version of it on Hoopla if any of your local libraries have access to that platform. I took the course that this book emerged out of (albeit after Rogers had moved on, taught instead by Paul Jones), so I'll be interested to see what the book is like.
October 5, 2023 at 2:28 PM
There's a free ebook version of it on Hoopla if any of your local libraries have access to that platform. I took the course that this book emerged out of (albeit after Rogers had moved on, taught instead by Paul Jones), so I'll be interested to see what the book is like.
Christians believe that words about God matter and cannot afford to dismiss, downplay, or evade Tonstad’s debasement of theological language.
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September 21, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Christians believe that words about God matter and cannot afford to dismiss, downplay, or evade Tonstad’s debasement of theological language.
mereorthodoxy.com/theology-is-...
mereorthodoxy.com/theology-is-...