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Anna Karenina: Aristocratic Life is All a Stage

Anna Karenina is a lush, beautiful, stylized film about succumbing to sexual flame and the complicated relationships of infidelity that tear a beautiful The post Anna Karenina: Aristocratic Life is All...

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Imaginative Gifts for the Entire Family

Imaginative conservatives read, pray, honor the past, build family memories, and do everything with wit, style and elegance. The gifts below have The post Imaginative Gifts for the Entire Family...

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Les Misérables: A Rousing Tale for Slumbering Souls

If you are allergic to emotion, this may not be the film for you. But if your heart yearns for good to The post Les Misérables: A Rousing Tale for Slumbering Souls appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Confronting an Evil Empire

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all The post Confronting an Evil Empire appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Conservative Credo

Conservatism seeks the Truth that has emerged over time, drawing from the deep wellsprings of human experience, and builds anew on foundations The post Conservative Credo appeared first on The...

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The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard

One of the great oaks among us is fallen. Dallas Willard, who died May 8, was a professor of philosophy, a teacher The post The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Damsels in Distress: a Cultural Anti-Depressant

If you’re feeling depressed about the culture around you, Dr. Elliott has a prescription for you: one full dose of Whit Stillman’s The post Damsels in Distress: a Cultural Anti-Depressant appeared...

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Celestial Courtroom: America at the Judgment of the Nations

[Classified Top Secret, Embargo on Distribution] Through unnamed sources involved in the proceedings, these notes were smuggled out of the Celestial Courtroom, The post Celestial Courtroom: America at...

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Germans Seize Homeschoolers in Outrageous Raid

At 8 a.m. on August 29, as Dirk and Petra Wunderlich began the day’s homseschooling classes with their four children, a team The post Germans Seize Homeschoolers in Outrageous Raid appeared first on...

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Want Affordable Health Care? Try These Tantalizing Options

After changing health insurance providers and having difficulty getting prescriptions filled, I was getting testy. Very testy. Then I read that the The post Want Affordable Health Care? Try These...

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D-Day and a Decadent French Wedding

Still slightly hung over from too much French champagne and cognac at the wedding of a French Count, I was driving from The post D-Day and a Decadent French Wedding appeared first on The Imaginative...

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What is Happiness? Pharrell Williams vs Aristotle

The song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams has gone viral, topping the charts in the United States and twenty-two other countries. It was The post What is Happiness? Pharrell Williams vs Aristotle appeared...

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Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall?

The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be permanent fixtures of the political landscape of Europe after 1961. But to The post Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall? appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Conservative Credo

(Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Barbara J. Elliott as she examines the True, the The post Conservative Credo appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Hip-Hop Hamilton

The musical Hamilton is star-spangled patriotic and worthy of attention, even though hip-hop may not be the favorite musical genre of most Imaginative Conservatives. Why? Intelligence finds the answer...

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When Mother Teresa Came to Washington

It was utterly ludicrous, stepping out of a chauffeured White House limousine to go hear Mother Teresa. Even then I recognized that, as a twenty-something working at the locus of political power. Her...

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John with Jesus: From Passover to the Garden of Gethsemane

I went with Peter to make the arrangements for the Passover supper. When we arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus had told us to look for a man carrying a pitcher of water. We were to follow him into the house...

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The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard

Authentic discipleship transforms all aspects of life, every day, at work, at home, in all relationships. My discipleship to Jesus is, within clearly definable limits, not a matter of what I do, but...

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Russell Kirk, Sage of Piety Hill: Planting Seeds for Generations to Come

Russell and Annette Kirk with the author Driving across the snowy landscape of Michigan the day after Christmas in 1973, I was somewhat apprehensive. I had been invited to take part in the first...

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The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard

Dallas Willard One of the great oaks among us is fallen. Dallas Willard, who died May 8 (2013), was a professor of philosophy, a teacher par excellence, and a great soul, capable of inspiring deep...

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