Virtue: Can It Be Taught? ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Kirk

By Russell Kirk

Are there men and women in America today possessed of virtue sufficient to withstand and repel the forces of disorder?

Or have we, as a people, grown too fond of creature-comforts and a fancied security to venture our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in any cause at all?

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/08/virtue-can-it-be-taught-russell-kirk.html

About 400 Baptist churches in Ukraine ‘lost’ due to invasion | World News

By Michael Gryboski

Around 400 Baptist churches based in the occupied parts of Ukraine cease to exist as a result of the Russian invasion, according to a seminary president who lives in the Eastern European nation.

— Read on www.christianpost.com/news/about-400-baptist-churches-in-ukraine-lost-due-to-invasion.html

Why Didn’t Akron Burn? | Opinion: Woodson

By Bob Woodson

Community leaders in Akron are showing the rest of America how to handle potentially volatile police-involved deaths.

— Read on www.newsweek.com/why-didnt-akron-burn-opinion-1726920

The Exodus From Public Schools: Cal Thomas

By Cal Thomas

Public schools, increasingly dominated by left-wing political and social ideology, have seen an exodus of students to other education options.

— Read on www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/09/public-school-system-in-need-of-major-reforms-or-burial/

Threat of Free Speech in the University: The Imaginative Conservative: Scruton

by Sir Roger Scruton

Free speech in a university is a very different thing from free speech in Congress or Parliament, freedom of the press, or free speech in the street

Hail Columbia, Happy Land: An Evangelical Southerner in 19th-Century Europe ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Miles Smith IV

Methodist minister Joseph Cross, a South Carolina native, traveled in Europe in the late 1850s, emerging as a nationalist committed to democracy, material progress, and enthusiastic Evangelical Protestantism…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/07/hail-columbia-happy-land-evangelical-southerner-19th-century-europe-miles-smith.html

When People Greeted Each Other With Courtesy & Purpose ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By John Horvat

A greeting is an act of humility and a gesture of justice, in which we give respect and honor due to others for who they are.

Indeed, greetings constitute the fragrant perfume of a Christian civilization in which these things are valued…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/07/people-greeting-courtesy-purpose-john-horvat.html