This past week I took my kids to see the second movie in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire.
While it is a violent series, I cannot think of a better movie or book series to open the door to moral and political discussions with our teen and
preteen kids.
For those unfamiliar with the Hunger Games, it is the story of a gladiatorial competition in a futuristic totalitarian regime, which requires each of 12 isolated districts to
select a teenage …
Every year Americans gather with family and friends to celebrate a unique American holiday, Thanksgiving. The name of the holiday
remains intact on most public school calendars as the concept of being thankful is easy enough to secularize without changing the name. So, unlike the
traditional Christmas and Easter breaks, its original name remains. But the depths of thankfulness of the Pilgrims are glossed over and the origins of our national holiday are over looked. It is
doubtful that a …
As we pause to remember and honor the service of our veterans on this Veterans Day, let us also
remember those veterans who are all too often remain forgotten – even when we take the time to remember those who were intentionally overlooked for so many years. Just three of these examples
include the Filipino Scouts of World War II, the US Soldiers and their Korean Augmentees who fought and died along the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) in …