October 11, 2007

Love humility as the mediating sister of all the virtues. She is our entry to all the pleasures of heaven and earth.

A good solution accepts also the limitations of discipline. Agricultural problems should receive solutions that are agricultural, not technological or economic. This second of 14 entries listing Berry’s good solutions that allow for “solving for pattern” probably provokes controversy. We want to solve every problem using technology or economics. But if the problem is pedagogical

Public opinion saddles the Christian college with inadequate reasons for existing, reasons the college cannot accept if it is to conceive and implement its task effectively and as a whole. Faulty expectations generate public relations problems and these add a needless burden to the problems of higher education today. Arthur Holmes: The Idea of a

According to this astonishing article, it’s even more than we thought. Hospitals, art, grammar, Homer, math theory, and now we discover we’ve only just caught up to Archimedes! What an astonishing people. For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next.