Old Testament Law

Old Testament Law Humans are lawmakers. We all have reams of regulations stored in our heads. We think highly of our own rules and are scornful of rules that contradict them. We get angry at people who break our rules, even when they have no idea what those rules...

The Holiday Tango

The Holiday Tango The Evacuation of Public Education I am a recipient of 12 1/2 years of public education (when I was young kindergarten met only half days. In those days kindergarten was seen as a transition year, allowing children to adjust from life at home into...

Men Are Pigs

I know a woman who said out loud, though somewhat sheepishly when she realized she could be heard, “Men are pigs”. I was hearing the end of a conversation and didn’t know the context, but I was taken aback because the woman is married to a responsible, accomplished...

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Character

“Implicit in the word ‘character’ is a story. It is a story about living for a purpose that is greater than the self. Though this purpose resides deeply within, its origins are outside the self and so it beckons one forward, channeling one’s passions to mostly quiet acts of devotion, heroism, sacrifice, and achievement. … For parents and other adults the task of ‘saving our children’ means, in large part, telling children what they are being saved for.” —James Davison Hunter

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