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Rebecca Koerselman

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What are they thinking?

I regularly meet with prospective college students and always end up asking the same question. “Out of curiosity, how do you decide where to attend

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Hospitable Discourse

In twentieth century America, hospitality began to regain some cultural footing. Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement in the 1930s and

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Should Historians be more Hospitable?

In the past few decades, professional historians have been in decline in the United States. Historians, professional organizations, and even non-historians have spent a great

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The Valley of Vision

The curmudgeonly journalist H.L. Mencken pronounced Puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. In popular culture, the Puritans are generally considered

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Questions are the Answer

After World War II, colleges were full of GIs securing the benefits of the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the “GI Bill”). Benjamin Samuel Bloom, a

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Google Cannot Teach Discernment

Between 2015 and 2016, Sam Wineburg and his team tested students in twelve states and studied 7,804 responses. The team specifically analyzed online civic reasoning,

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A Memorial Reflection

The absence of space startled me. The longer I stood there, the more I was struck by the weightiness of that lack of space. Next,

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Why Either – Or?

If God incarnated himself in man, died and rose from the dead, All human endeavors deserve attention Only to the degree that they depend on

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