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Kelly GivensFamilyFeaturedEducation
This past winter, my six-year-old began each day looking out the window. I would hear him roll out of bed, feet hit the floor, his footsteps moving toward one of the windows in his room. I knew what he was […]
Dan OlsonFeaturedEducation
In a 2013 article on ‘Christian Schooling and Racial Realities,’ Hunter Baker concluded that while “the racial unification of the American church might best begin in the Christian schoolhouse” he lamented that it is a “mission … awaiting a champion […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEducation
I suspect that my old high school teacher Michael Baker would have rather mixed feelings about having an obituary published in a magazine called Mere Orthodoxy. Certainly, he was the kind of teacher that would have scared many white evangelical parents, […]
Kevin BrownFeaturedEducationJournalJournal 2
Physicist Leonard Mlodinow opens his entertaining book The Drunkard’s Walk with the story of a lottery winner whose lucky ticket ended with the number 48.[1] However, according to the contestant, luck had nothing to do with it. Claiming clairvoyance, they dreamt the […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation
There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation
What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.
Heather PetersonFeaturedEducationCurrent Politics
In a previous article, I wrote about my concern with Christian organizations employing the Intercultural Development Inventory for two reasons, the undermining of the image of God and the undermining of objective moral values.
Kirsten SandersFeaturedEducation
Come now, O Lord my God. Teach my heart where and how to seek you, where and how to find you. Lord, if you are not here, where shall I seek you, since you are absent? But if you are […]
Kevin BrownFeaturedEducation
According to legend, thousands of years ago the mighty King Croesus of Lydia consulted with the oracle of Delphi to determine whether he should battle the great Persian Empire. The oracle famously replied, “If Croesus goes to war he will […]
Emily BrighamFeaturedEducation
Even during the COVID-19 era classroom we can still practice holiness. We can still strain after wholeness, even in a time of uncertainty and death.
Jeremiah WebsterFeaturedHistoryEducation
The Anglo-Saxon scop was a figure whose office involved poetic and priestly roles which helped to open medieval eyes to the wonder of creation.
Casey ShuttFeaturedEducation
The problem for our schools is a flawed telos that is too much in step with the cadence of the wild. An essentially violent world begets violent schools.