Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · Setting New Year's Intentions, Not Resolutions | Becky Garrison Setting a New Year’s resolution to lose ten pounds, make more money, or land a coveted gig sounds good on paper. But by mid-January, I’d always find myself in the company of the over 80 percent of Americans who failed to stick to their […]
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What the secular shift has done to New Year’s resolutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the last few hundred years in the West, we may observe the following progression: Under the influence of secularization, what for centuries had been wrapped in the trappings of faith gets transformed into routine worldly convention—without a religious aroma. Here are some examples: The New Year is no different. Beginning with an air of […]