Glenn Schultz writes in his Kingdom Education Ministries blog about how a conference challenged him that "the education we give the next generation must be built on a strong biblical worldview and a biblical philosophy of education. This must be a reality at home, church and school." Research was presented by Dr. George Barna that the most dominant worldview among young Christians is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, "a very dangerous belief system that too many Christians live their lives by."
Schultz concludes that "we cannot afford to be simply 'better' than secular schools. Christian schools must not take a secular model of schooling and merely Christianize it with Bible classes and chapels."
John Dickson has an undeceptions podcast with historian, Tom Holland, who has written, Dominion: The making of the Western Mind. The popular perception is that "Christianity thrives on ignorance, sunk us all into the dark ages, and has resisted human rights and equality for most of its 1500 year reign" so we ask, "What have the Christians ever done for us?" Although Holland is not a believing Christian, he reckons "many of us have things completely back to front. It's Christianity," he insists, "that gave us many of the secular humanitarian ideals we hold so dear."
In Mercatornet, June 29, 2021, Jonathan Van Maren shares his interview of Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute. Ferguson's reflections on his personal journey, as well as the journey of other public intellectuals like Roger Scruton, Douglas Murray, Tom Holland and Jordan Peterson, is fascinating. One of Van Maren's conclusions is, "Viewing Western civilisation with its Christian soul cut out, many are now willing to say: “We need Christ.” What they are unable, thus far, to say, is: “I need Christ.”
The DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College case in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) could impact anyone in Massachusetts who works at a religiously affiliated school or hospital, but the implications could be far broader. The dispute began with a disagreement about LGBTQ+ policies which is not uncommon. The private, evangelical Christian college asked the SJC essentially to rule that any Christian who works at a Christian institution is a ‘minister’ which would prevent normal rules about workplace discrimination from being applied. This SJC ruled that the associate professor of social work was not a “minister.”
I've been reading Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh. I didn't know anything about Islamic history when I started and still only have a vague understanding of the big picture. The names are unfamiliar so it is difficult to keep the cast of characters straight. The pages of unillustrated narrative haven’t helped me develop a timetable of the millennia or a big picture of developments, but I have a renewed appreciation of the difficulty that students have when studying history with a limited understanding of the context and little intrinsic motivation. I’m reading because I want to and have no time restraints. Students rarely have these advantages.
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