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1. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Jacob Hess

   7 signs your counselor may be undermining your faith (opens the original)

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   Competent, ethical counseling is a force for good. Yet new scrutiny of the practice has arisen in recent years. For instance, Abigail Shrier drew attention in 2024 to the consequences of “poorly executed” therapy focused on children. And earlier this year, therapist Jonathan Alpert argued that a proliferation of therapy has left America “more anxious and divided.” These concerns have brought renewed attention to what renowned psychologist Allen Bergin, 40 years ago, called the “deterio

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2. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Jacob Hess

   Opinion: My boys love Spider-Man, but not his potty mouth (opens the original)

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   One of my sons has always loved Spider-Man — at least as much as his dad loved Superman since childhood. We both know who would win in a head-to-head contest, but to keep the peace, I try not to press the point. With his birthday coming up, he’s been excitedly planning an outing to see the new “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” with his friends — along with apparently every other young person in the known world ($1.67 billion worldwide in its first 10 days). And lots of older people too. Like

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3. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Jacob Hess

   What do plummeting reading rates mean for individual spirituality and faith? (opens the original)

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   Three hundred years after the printing press ushered in a “reading revolution,” the human family has entered what British columnist James Marriott calls the “counter-revolution” — a “reading recession,” summed up in startling statistics: Trends in younger generations are even more pronounced: An ever-diminishing fraction of the human family appears to be reading in a consistent way. Many consequences of this multigenerational reading retreat have received scrutiny, ranging from inc

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