social-cultural system
Here’s something that isn’t discussed much. The Anglican Church was the state church of the English Crown. North Carolina colonists who were religious dissenters (members of any religious sect not…
Earlier this week the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education released new enrollment numbers for private schools and home schools in North Carolina. My colleague, Kaitlyn Shepherd, analyzed changes in…
I’m often amazed by parents who seem to have largely ceded the education and socialization of their kids to a school system, caring little about what their kids are being…
A recent column from N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler on Hugh Williamson, a little-known American founder from Edenton, attracted attention this week from the Tenth Amendment Center, the Imaginative…
Whether you pray in a church or believe wholeheartedly that there is no God, you’re religious. That’s the argument Eric Dent, professor of management at UNC-Pembroke, offered during his presentation…
Several studies suggest optimists live longer and enjoy better health than pessimists. The real mystery is why. … Perhaps optimists enjoy better health and longer lives because they lead healthier…
The comparison isn’t new, but John Baden here does it very well. The comparison is especially apt when made to religions that demand belief or else they’ll make you.
This wonderful piece by Julian Morris of the UK states quite succinctly why the modern environmental movement should be viewd as a religious movement and not a public policy movement…
Students recommended the professor to other students because he “cancelled class so much that we didn’t have a second test (he counted our best score twice) and he gave away…
More detail here than I could possibly review. But, not so much that a super heroic reader of the LR couldn’t ascertain — complete with supporting essays, quotations, interviews and…