“Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but in quite a different way from what he expected. . . . He was happy, having embarked on family life he saw every step that it was not at all what he anticipated. Every step he took he felt as a man would feel who, …
Life is never what we expect, but it can be good. Read More »
The second philosophical problem with MMSD’s curriculum is that it assumes a moral course of action without proving or even arguing on behalf of it. Throughout the curriculum students are time and again taught that they need to “support” and be “allies” of those with non-normative sexualities. It is not my purpose here to argue …
There are three fundamental ways of understanding reality. The first view teaches that everything physical is a reflection of a deeper spiritual reality. For example, we find a rose or a sunset beautiful because it reflects beauty found in God. The second view teaches that there is a common reality found in like things. For …
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Many of you have probably heard about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that legislates that instruction regarding “sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Given the amount of discussion around this …
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Striving Joyfully is a tall order, but it is why Charis exists. The world is deforming our children. Many people believe that virtue is an outdated technology; we don’t need virtue, only “life hacks.” Others hold that a series of temporary, passionate romances are of greater value than a covenantal, comprehensive, and lifelong commitment built …
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“A shadow seemed to have fallen on [Dolly’s] life; she recognized that these children, of whom she had been so proud, were not only quite ordinary but even bad and ill-bred children, with coarse animal inclinations—in fact, vicious children. She could think and speak of nothing else, and yet could not tell [anyone] her trouble.” …
How do these three things, technology, science, and love, come interrelate? First off, we’ve created an advanced technological system that constantly distracts us from things of worth and value; things that humanize us and connect us with one another. How often does a notification or text interrupt a conversation you are having? How often are …
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A century ago G.K. Chesterton prophetically wrote, “The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality, and especially on sexual morality. . . . The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow [Chesterton is here alluding to Marxism] but much more in Manhattan.” Heresy is different than apostasy. An apostate simply …
Science tells us what is, but not what ought to be. For example, it describes how to make poison, but not if we should use poison. It tells us how to swim, but it does not and cannot tell us when we ought to plunge into a raging river to attempt to save a drowning …
Over the next six weeks I plan to rework my State of the School talk on Striving Joyfully into a series of six short essays. I will start by writing about three misunderstandings (technology, science, and love) that we need to be striving against, spend another week on how these three things converge, and then …
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