Segregated Education: The New York Times Considers the Same-Sex Education Issue
I came across an interesting and lengthy piece by Elizabeth Weil in the New York Times which tackles the question of whether single-sex education is a beneficial and justifiable educational option. I...
View ArticleWhat Kids Are Reading Nowadays, and How it Relates to the Greatest Commandment
Ninth-12th Grade 1. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee2. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”3. “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck4. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”5. “A Child Called ‘It,’ ”...
View ArticleNew Trends in Education That Really Aren’t New
Everything new is old again. So is the case in certain American schools, which are overturning sacred modern educational ideology by re-instituting special classes for below-average students. In...
View ArticleSuffer Not the Little Children to Come to Me–and to Us
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such...
View ArticleThe God-Driven Family Vs. the Money-Driven Family
The Her.meneutics blog often has provocative content, and this week was no exception. It featured a piece entitled “Thou Shalt Have More Kids” by Jen Pollock Michel that I found helpful. Michel makes...
View ArticleOn Daisy Merrick (2004-2013) and Loving Little Children
I blogged a few times in the last year about little Daisy Merrick, the 8-year-old daughter of pastor Britt Merrick and his wife, Kate, of Reality Church in California. She fought cancer for many months...
View Article5 Implications of the Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision
Same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states, per the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. What should Christians think and do in response? 1. We should recognize that this is a dark hour for America....
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