G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “Tradition is the extension of Democracy through time.” He later went on to add that “Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.” Chesterton said he couldn’t…

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Dr. James Spencer, president of the D.L. Moody Center in Northfield, Massachusetts, joined Fox News’s “Lighthouse Faith” podcast to discuss his new book, Christian Resistance: Learning to Defy the World and Follow Jesus. He compared the current climate in the United States for conservative Christians to that of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. “I think Orwell is describing…

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Five children from the ages of 8 to 17 died in a tragic car accident on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, NY. A tweet from CBS New York reporter Tony Aiello identified the children as Anthony Billips Jr., 17, Malik Smith Jr., 16, Zahniyah Cross, 12, Shawnell Cross, 11, and Andrew Billips, 8. One nine-year-old boy…

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Melissa Joan Hart, known for playing “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” was going to a parent-teacher conference when news of the shooting at The Covenant School broke out in Nashville, Tennessee. Hart and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, were in their car when they saw a group of kindergarteners running out of the woods near the private…

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