New FTU Course: Is the Traditional Family Worth Saving?
Is the old model of “the family” obsolete? Many argue it should be, while others like G.K. Chesterton contend that it must be preserved. To which view are you married? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
Change Wisely, Dude
By Andrea Palpant Dilley | When I came back to church after a faith crisis in my early 20s, the first one I attended regularly was a place called Praxis. It was the kind of church where the young, hip pastor hoisted an infant into his arms and said with sincerity, “Dude, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” The entire service had an air of informality. We sat in folding chairs, sang rock-anthem praise and took clergy-free, buffet-style communion. Once a month, the pastor would point to a table at the back of the open-rafter sanctuary and invite us to…
Free Think U Scholarship Goes to Harvard Student
By Jack Lewis | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce another of its recent scholarship winners, Jon Bell, who is enrolled at Harvard through its Extension program. Jon was awarded a $2,000 grant, in part for his design work relating to the new Free Think University 2.0 website re-design. Jon is a social media and UI/UX specialist who is enrolling at Harvard through its…
What Are You Thinking About?
Gary Varvel, a political cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, likes to poke fun at how illiterate we have become about the news of the day – and the more important questions that lie behind the news about the nation we are making.
Our ”Godless Constitution”
By Eric Metaxas | One Fourth of July ad would have you believe that the Founding Fathers sought to shield our nation’s government from Christianity. Clever, but not true. This Fourth of July, I opened up the New York Times, and whammo! I found an extremely misleading...
Who Is Racist?
By Thomas Sowell | I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll…
What Every Twenty-Something Needs to Know
By David Murray | Every 20-something deserves to know what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists and fertility specialists already know: Claiming your twenties is one of the simplest yet most transformative things you can do for work, for love, for your…
Less Content for More Money
By Anne D. Neal | Baltimore Sun | Maryland’s public honors college charges too much and delivers too little, and prospective students are starting to catch on….the higher ed bubble is bursting, right in our own backyard. And colleges and universities need to take note, to ensure their own survival. The case in point is St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a 173-year-old public institution tucked between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. After a decade of rising tuition, this public liberal arts college finds itself with…
Real Americans Don’t Trust the Government
By Jonathon Moseley | “Question Authority” was a dominant political theme in the ’60s and 70s We’re talking about the 1760s and the 1770s, of course — the American Revolution. Well, sure, the 1960s and the 1970s, too. But our country was founded on the idea “Question Authority” while opposing…