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Welcome to The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal! This new section of 1819 News is your place for commentary, advice, and musings on life and renewing the culture.

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About the Fred and Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal

The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal aims to do just what its name implies: renew the culture.

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Devin Foley: What is culture war?

A culture war is just as serious as a traditional war, even more so in many cases. There is no neutral in this fight, it’s a total war for the very soul of our nation.

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Annie Holmquist: The choice before us – chaos or Christianity

Religion – particularly Christianity – is at the core of society because it puts us in right relationship with God. And when we’re in right relationship with God, everything else falls into place, namely, our relationships with family, work, community, and government.

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Thomas Kaufmann: AI – friend or foe?

Not all AI technology is bad, especially if it enhances your job and makes it easier. Nonetheless, the only way that harmful or dangerous technologies will succeed is when people stop thinking critically about them.

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Annie Holmquist: A Good Friday remembrance from the heart of the Holocaust

There’s no weekend better than the present to reevaluate and change our indifference toward Christianity.

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Annie Holmquist: Why is Christianity increasingly attractive to men?

Why is it that numbers of men seem to be turning to Christianity, but not so the women – at least not in the same dramatic numbers?

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Sarah Wilder: How Trump's tariffs could enrich your home

Reclaiming our creative heritage helps us rise above whatever social media has told us is what we should wear if we want to be beautiful or sophisticated or a la mode.

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Jeff Minick: For teens, knowing the past helps them face the challenges of the future

The study of history deepens the humanity of our young people and makes them better equipped to face the challenges of the future.  

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Sarah Wilder: Normalize making career sacrifices to raise your babies

There’s an entire generation of women who have been sold a specific lie.

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Devin Foley: The real reform of education

Our society is rapidly declining because our souls have decayed. It is only through family and education that future souls can be restored to their potential glory.

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Jeff Minick: Passing the torch of American history to our children

Give your children a nudge toward the past, and you may find them off on a lifelong love affair with the American story. 

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Annie Holmquist: Why big families aren’t the bane of America’s existence

Children give people a different perspective on life. Yes, they’re messy, loud and needy … but they also help us as adults to think more long-term, grow less selfish, and even ponder God and His ways.

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Thomas Kaufmann: It's time to tell the story of the Civil War once more

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, but practically no one is talking about it. The Civil War has been banished, exiled – practically erased from cultural memory today.

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Annie Holmquist: Reading gatekeepers – the parental responsibility experts want you to forget

The shelves that many of us roamed as children no longer contain wholesome stories; instead, they often contain pornographic and sexual deviant material that many teachers, librarians, and public figures think children should have the right to see.

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Jeff Minick: Learn the past or lose the future

You can’t truly love what you don’t know. Ignorance of the American past means that patriotism, the love for one’s country, will disappear, which in turn transforms that country into a hollow shell of its former self.

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Martin Cothran: Why students need the books schools don't want them to read

Culture is now cannibalistic, feeding on itself.

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Annie Holmquist: Restoring manners in children starts with us

In the grand scheme of things, these simple gestures don’t take that long to teach our children – at least, if we continually model them to the little eyes watching us.

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Jeff Minick: The women dancing alone on the road to miserable

Men were once criticized for upside-down priorities, for putting career and advancement ahead of their wives and families. In copycatting them, these liberal women have taken an extra step and eradicated husbands and children altogether. 

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Devin Foley: Social justice — When good becomes evil?

If one distills the main thrust of Social Justice, one comes to understand that it is the belief that a just society cannot exist until all identity groups have parity with the others.

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Annie Holmquist: The 3 simple components to raising an intelligent child

Want to see our free culture continue? Then start raising an intelligent kid … and rest assured that it doesn’t take a genius to do it.

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Jeff Minick: April is National Poetry Month, and we’re all invited to the party

Poems can help us savor and appreciate life when it’s good and act as a bulwark and booster when it goes bad.

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Mark Tapson: It's time to reclaim America's cultural literacy

Young people who do not read books or know their history will one day become more easily manipulated and lied to by demagogues.

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Annie Holmquist: The civil disobedience of raising a family

This type of civil disobedience can’t be done in one short little protest. It’s a long march that requires patience and commitment, but one that offers great rewards not only for yourself but for your children.

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Thomas Kaufmann: 'Would you like fries with that?' Restoring good customer service in an age of hurry

As a customer, I’m very disappointed in what I’m experiencing in customer service as a patron of several fast-food franchises. Maybe you’ve experienced the same.

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Jeff Minick: Boys will be boys ... or will they?

For better and for worse, America has spent the last 50 years replacing a patriarchy with a matriarchy. The “oppressors” have become the oppressed. 

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Annie Holmquist: DEI for guys is not the answer to rebuilding masculinity

Think DEI programs are on their way out the door? Think again. They seem to be alive and well, but not for women and minorities. This time they’re for men and boys.

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Allen Keller: DOGE and the synergy of all things

This spirit of change emanating from the broader U.S. government, all the way down through the larger private sector, even into our little lumber mill, suggests a unity in our world that isn’t often discussed.

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Annie Holmquist: Craftsmanship, one secret to boosting American happiness?

Faithful craftsmanship has its eventual reward – and that is something which can bring joy to the heart of every American.

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Jeff Minick: The kids are alright – an old guy’s take on young adults

The future of America is in good hands. These young adults, the kids I sometimes call them, will be fine, and so will our country.

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Annie Holmquist: 4 things every man should look for in a wife

Patrick Henry's life and letters provide sound advice for a happy, lasting marriage.

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