Kent – Liberty Street

A Professor Learns the Price of Speaking Her Mind

Kent — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:04:55 +0000

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax writes in the Wall Street Journal: In debating others, we should have higher standards. Of course one has the right to hurl labels like “racist,” “sexist” and “xenophobic” — but that doesn’t make it the right thing to do. Hurling such labels doesn’t enlighten, inform, edify or educate. Indeed, it undermines […]

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Baby Born On Day Before Abortion Limit Survives, Her Skin Was So Thin You Can See Her Brain

Kent — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:28:32 +0000

A little baby girl born one day before the abortion limit in England finally is thriving at home with her family. Hailie Dillion, of the Isle of Wight, survived several life-threatening episodes, and now is a healthy 1 year old, according to The Sun. The infant was born so prematurely that her parents said they could […]

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Germany: Court orders Volkswagen to rehire Islamic State recruiter who threatened employees with death

Kent — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:17:54 +0000

Car giant Volkswagen has been ordered by a German court to reinstate a suspected Islamist militant it fired over fears he might launch a terrorist attack on the company Volkswagen “feared he might mount a terror attack at the corporate HQ in Wolfsburg during a meeting of thousands of workers and shareholders.” They fired him when he “threatened […]

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What Makes Something a Sacrament?

Kent — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 01:23:26 +0000

Someone has invited you to a new, cutting-edge worship service especially targeting the twenty- and thirty-somethings. Identifying itself as part of the “emergent” network, the group does not identify itself as a church (too many bad associations). It doesn’t look like church either, but more like a large living room, with different stations for various […]

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Are You Pretending to Be Happy?

Kent — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:12:30 +0000

Walk through any bookstore in America, and you might think we have the corner on happiness. Cover after cover promises some secret to new or deeper contentment, each selling tens of thousands of copies. Habits, relationships, food, forgiveness, work, exercise, minimalism — you can choose from a thousand different recipes for happiness. Whether people are […]

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