3 things that deserve our gratitude amid this tumultuous year in politics

This is the perfect time of year to consider things we’re thankful for, and although we’re facing a period of political tumult, there are still many things and people in politics deserving of our gratitude. Ahead of any holiday festivities you may have planned, here are just a few things that have me saying, “Thanks.”Progressive…Continue Reading

The Separatist

November 25, 2021 6:00 AM The Pilgrims Signing the Compact, on board the Mayflower, Nov. 11th, 1620, engraving by Gauthier (Library of Congress) On Thanksgiving, take care to remember that this pilgrim republic, fearfully and wonderfully made, was made for better and higher things. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W illiam Bradford, the Pilgrim leader who organized…Continue Reading

The Gardener, Looking

A poem for late autumn. There — a ruby-throated hummingbird in the raspberry beebalm, like a word just now on the tip of your tongue. The square inch of air it hovers in is shirred, and when it flies, is bare. Minutes later a hummingbird moth, its wings like the froth of tiny waves. Bird…Continue Reading

Thank Goodness for the Return of In-Person Thanksgiving

Janis and Uri Segal celebrate Thanksgiving with a Zoom call with their family before a small dinner together in Detroit, Mich., November 26, 2020. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) Let’s just come right out and say it: Last year’s socially distanced holiday family gatherings were awful. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F rom the perspective of Thanksgiving 2021, we can…Continue Reading

A Conservative Thanksgiving

Let us again celebrate so that we might preserve, and feast so that we might build. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hanksgiving is a conservative holiday. Not so much in the mode of contemporary partisanships of “Left” and “Right” but in its broadest, purest sense. Ultimately, true conservatism seeks to preserve. It desires to safeguard and…Continue Reading

Animist Villagers in India Force Christians to Exhume Body

NEW DELHI, November 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists influenced by Hindu extremists in central India last month forced Christians to exhume the body of a 25-year-old man buried on relatives’ private land because they didn’t want a Christian interred in their village, sources said.Laxman Markam had been dead for two days when…Continue Reading

Biden Admin. Slammed for Removing Nigeria from Religious Persecution List: Thousands of Christians Have Been Killed

Religious liberty watchdogs are criticizing the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from an annual list of religious freedom violators, charging that it denies reality and is motivated solely by foreign policy interests.At issue is an annual list released by the State Department that examines the status of religious freedom in every country in the world…Continue Reading

Suspect Who Drove SUV into Wisconsin Christmas Parade Charged with 5 Counts of First-Degree Intentional Homicide

On Tuesday, Darrel Brooks Jr. was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide after he drove his red Ford Escape into a crowd of marchers during an annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.The aftermath of the tragedy injured 62 people and killed six people, one of which was an 8-year-old boy who succumbed to…Continue Reading

59 Percent of Americans Say Having Political Conversations with People of Opposing Views Is ‘Stressful, Frustrating’

A new survey found that 59 percent of U.S. adults say having political conversations with people they disagree with is “stressful and frustrating.”Both Republicans and Democrats alike say political conversations have become more stressful.Today, 58 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents say they find those conversations stressful, and six in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents…Continue Reading