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A Pandemic Observed

What mourning my husband and son taught me about the fear of death. We buried my baby in a wooden box in the crook of the arm of his father. My husband was thirty-seven and had died in a car accident coming home from his work as an Orthodox priest…

Death And Dying

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A Pandemic Observed
A Pandemic Observed
Death And Dying

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Aug 25, 2020

Мысли о пандемии

Что скорбь о потере мужа и сына открыла мне о страхе смерти. КАТРИН БЕЙКЕР Мы похоронили нашего мальчика в небольшом деревяном ящике, который нёс его отец. Моему мужу было тридцать семь лет когда он погиб в автомобильной аварии во время неожиданной снежной бури по дороге домой из церкви, в которой…

Religion

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Мысли о пандемии
Мысли о пандемии
Religion

15 min read


Aug 18, 2020

Anti-rape culture and the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral

“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.” I first encountered these words on a meme depicting the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. The meme appeared before the flames had even been quenched. After some digging I discovered that the quote was attributed both to the Marxist revolutionary, Che…

Christianity

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Anti-rape culture and the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral
Anti-rape culture and the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral
Christianity

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Aug 15, 2020

God and the art of road trip parenting

Is God really indifferent to our suffering? Since my teens I had been familiar with the common atheist argument that God either does not exist or He must be utterly indifferent to our suffering and therefore not good. …

Parenting

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God and the art of road trip parenting
God and the art of road trip parenting
Parenting

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Aug 15, 2020

Can empathy ever go too far?

How out-of-control empathy may be polarizing our public discourse. Empathy is widely regarded as one of life’s most important skills, but can it ever go too far? In his 2016 book Against Empathy, Canadian American psychologist and professor of psychology Dr. …

Empathy

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Can empathy ever go too far?
Can empathy ever go too far?
Empathy

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Aug 14, 2020

The Hemispheres of Human Experience

Is gender merely a social construct? Sexuality has become increasingly politicized in the last decade in America. It has become popular to think of gender not in a binary way but as a spectrum with as many as 50 or more possibilities, each fading into the next. In some academic…

Gender

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The Hemispheres of Human Experience
The Hemispheres of Human Experience
Gender

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Aug 13, 2020

Grampa and Saving Private Ryan

Virtue and valor against “Toxic Masculinity.” When my 16, 14 and 12 year-old sons asked me if they could watch Thor: Ragnarok for a second time, I reminded them that it wasn’t likely to improve upon second viewing, and they good-naturedly agreed. Their next choice was Saving Private Ryan. That…

Toxic Masculinity

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Saving Private Ryan:
Saving Private Ryan:
Toxic Masculinity

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Mar 7, 2020

Public good starts in the private world

The great power in the unhistoric acts of the faithfully hidden life — Two myths shared by feminism and the radical left have a major influence on contemporary culture. The first is that the external problems of life are the most significant; the second is that men do all (or most of) the bad things. These are united by one underlying assumption: the…

Family

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Public good starts in the private world
Public good starts in the private world
Family

7 min read

Katherine Baker

Katherine Baker

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Orthodox Christian, widow of a priest, mother of six (living) children, gardener, and writer.

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