Allow me to propose what might be the underlying moral dilemma in all our relationships, public and private: When people gain power, they become able to do bad and inconvenient things. For example, the toddler is capable of wreaking a great deal more havoc on the house than the nursing infant. Nonetheless, the essential duty […]
Now that we’ve been back at school for several weeks, there is a certain type of Facebook post that has become commonplace amongst my friends whose children go to school: the drop-off and pick-up line angst post. This should really be a Facebook post genre in its own right, up there with posts about politics,
At various times I get the opportunity to speak to groups at the beginning at the school year. I often deliver some variation of the following—especially as it leads to a beautiful picture of what a wise, generous, and truly loving person looks like. There’s a very real question about why we do what we
We teachers don’t realize until later that we need what we were given as children.
Let us suppose that we are educating children with an eye to the kingdom of Heaven and with the hope that it might positively affect the culture we swim in. If that is so, it seems to me that we need to Remember the fishermen Re-orient ourselves from practical or even academic knowledge to what
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A few days ago, after I got home from work, I took my 3-year old (Ransom) and 2-year old (Calvin) outside to the old, wooden swing-set in our backyard, which is, without a doubt, one of their favorite activities. It is also one of the few things they do in near-silence, so it is one
II Tim 4: 9, 10: Make every effort to come to me soon: for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me.
