John Shelton
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John Shelton
@jshelt.bsky.social
Policy Director at Advancing American Freedom | husband and father of 👦🏼👦🏼👧🏼👶🏼 | 📝: National Review, TGC, MereO, WORLD, & Providence | 🦬 🌊⚓️ ✝️
This family policy essay was an elaborate excuse to tell a favorite story: how my grandpa ended up in a helicopter crash after a panicking trainee pulled the wrong lever.

SPOILER: he survived and, thanks to a generous morphine drip, was "as happy as a hog."

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Civitas Institute | Research & Commentary | Getting Family Policy Wrong
Family support spending should not be the main tool for achieving or measuring family policy success.
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December 30, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The title of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" isn't just some banal reminder that Halloween comes two months before Christmas.

The nightmare is not Halloween, but a world before Christmas.

Once Christmas comes, the nightmare is finally over.

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“Nightmare Before Christmas” is Absolutely a Christmas Movie - Providence
Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" is ultimately about the unavoidable enchantment that comes with the story of God choosing to dwell among men
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December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Christians believe that words about God matter and cannot afford to dismiss, downplay, or evade Tonstad’s debasement of theological language.

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September 21, 2023 at 12:54 PM