Rev Fisk has described this life as a waiting room.. Waiting for faith to be sight, waiting to be free from sinning, waiting for our Savior’s return. These posts are contemplations about life from Mad Mondays contributors.
A recent study from American Enterprise Institute surveyed 5000 adults, 18 years and older about dating and marriage and the findings are quite instructive. A lot of things are the same as they have been for a while – young people are prioritizing education and careers, while delaying marriage and starting a family. But there has been a dramatic… Read More Failure to launch
The works of children’s author, Roald Dahl, have been given a little contemporary tune-upby Puffin Publishing House. Dahl wrote many well-loved children’s books, such as “Matilda”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and “James and the Giant Peach”. “Sensitivity readers” were tasked with removing anything that might upset…well, anyone. Characters are described as “enormous” rather than fat and Willy Wonka’s… Read More Sensitive readers
It turns out that trains derail more often than you hear about, but golly! There seem to be a lot lately! The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, has a lot of folks worried for a number of reasons. While no one died in the accident on February 3rd, the train was transporting a variety… Read More Ohio
Our readers will be aware that schools are complicit in pushing children into the transgendering pipeline, saturating curriculum with propaganda, and hiding their actions from families. But Alvin Lui from Courage is a Habit warns that school counselors are also playing an outside role in creating an “affirming” culture in schools, especially by redefining two terms: safe and abuse.… Read More We’ll take it from here
Satanic panics come ’round now and then and the recent Grammy awards was one such time. Non-binary singer Sam Smith and transgender diva Kim Petras epitomized cultural confusion with their duet feature all the usual hellish Hollywood tropes – a horned costume, red leather, flames and general debauchery. So prosaic has this scene become that even the… Read More The devil you know
The FDA has proposed that covid shots be made available as an annual inoculation. But as we mentioned recently, there are still many questions around the long-term safety and efficacy of these vaccines. Since it is clearer than ever that covid is only life-threatening to particular segments of the population, surely it would be prudent to… Read More Profit and loss
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida continues to prove he is a speed bump in the road when it comes to the plans of liberal progressive types. Last week, the Governor’s office rejected a proposed curriculum for a course on African American history. DeSantis said the course was indoctrination, not education, as it contained modules about queer theory,… Read More We don’t need no indoctrination
For a while now, certain corners of the internet have been filled with chatter about how conservatives are all talk. They’re very good at reacting to the outrageous ideas of progressives but fail hard when it comes to getting things done. It is criticism worth considering, but we are well aware of what is at… Read More Lost art
A recent scientific study about scientific studies has concluded that there is not as much “disruptive” science being published lately. Authors of the study noted that while there are more papers being published today than in the 1940s, discoveries which send scientific disciplines in a brand new direction are light on the ground. An article in Nature journal pitches… Read More Blind with science
A new study from Bath University warns that social media use may be preventing people from finding “new passions”. The study authors say that staving off “superficial boredom” by scrolling on devices can prevent “profound boredom” from setting in. Profound boredom, they say, “stems from an abundance of uninterrupted time spent in relative solitude, which can lead… Read More Digital decluttering
