The Ho-Humdrum

The Ho-Humdrum

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Yet for all the deprivation surrounding us, the idea of new monastic orders doesn't appear particularly catchy in this era of video-Christianity. Besides, young and newfangled, you are more eager to do good in some South Africa or other than next door …
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Trillion Down The Rathole And Counting: The Ill-Fated War On Drugs

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It didn't hurt either that in their minds, a major target of the War on Drugs would be those dirty hippies who lost Vietnam for us. As such, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 was passed on October 27, 1970. A few months …
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Local musician shares testimony of overcoming addiction and serving God

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One that is particularly near to his heart is Celebrate Recovery, a LifePoint ministry dedicated to helping people overcome addictions, grief, anger and other life barriers. Walker grew up in a Baptist church and was … “I didn't have any friends that …
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1970s American Culture Sociology Documentary Films: Health, Education, Fashion, Drug Use – In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. The hippie culture, which started in the latter half of the 1960s, waned by the early 1970s and faded towards the middle part of the decade, which involved opposition to the Vietnam War, opposition to nuclear weapons, the advocacy of world peace, and hostility to the authority of government and big business. The environmentalist movement began to increase dramatically in this period. Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term Me decade in his article “The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening”, published by New York magazine in August 1976 referring to the 1970s. The term describes a general new attitude of Americans towards atomized individualism and away from communitarianism in clear contrast with the 1960s. Wolfe attributes disappearance of the “proletariat” with the appearance of the “lower middle class”, citing the economic boom of Post-War America as affording the average American a sort of self determination and individuation that ran alongside economic prosperity. Wolfe describes this abandoning of communal, left, and New Deal politics as “taking the money and running.” He traces the preoccupation with one’s self back to the aristocrat. The nature of the “chivalric tradition” and the philosophy behind “the finishing school” are inherently dedicated to the building and forming of personal