The last chapter of Waters’ book gives him an opportunity to wrap up. But although I will interact with some elements of this chapter, I am not going to wrap up, not just yet anyhow. Nossir. I am going to go through the footnotes too. First, Waters charges me with a “misuse of logic.” Were …
Some Gets In
“Since we are not withdrawing to the wilderness to establish Hermitage Christian School, we must continue to deal with the world around us as we seek to establish biblical education. And because the world around us resembles a particularly persistent and thick fog, some of it gets in” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. …
Are Rock and Blues Cousins?
“Thus, despite rock’s claim to have arisen from the blues, its character differs decisively from that of the older and, to Pattison’s mind, less vulgar genre. While rock deals with may of the same themes as the blues, sex and alcohol prominent among them, it approaches them with a ‘passionate intensity’ that naturally follows from …
Another Corollary of Unity
“For seeing the church is one city, and one lump, a little fire may hazard all, and a little leaven corrupt all, and unwatchfulness at one part, or post, may let in enemies to destroy all” (Durham, p. 166).
Washington”s Faith
Trinty Fest is just next week, and we are gearing up. In this event, the “major party” aspect exists in creative tension with the “history lectures” component. The talks this year will be addressing what secularism has done to the U.S. Constitution. Under the rallying cry that the Constitution is a “living document,” the secularists …
Confessional Laxity Over At Mississippi Valley
In my previous Auburn Avenue post, in the comments section Mark Horne supplied the following quotation from Turretin. The emphases are Mark’s, and Turretin was da bomb. “The question is not whether faith alone justifies to the exclusion either of the grace of God or the righteousness of Christ or the word AND SACRAMENTS (BY …
There We Are
“It would be nice indeed if worldview problems could be solved by just crossing the street and opening up a new school, one that is all fresh and clean. But the difficulty is that we track stuff in with us. Wherever we go, there we are” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).
Whole Lotta Shaking Goin” On
“Critic and defender, liberal and conservative, all utterly fail to grasp, first, the natural power of music itself—that is, music without words—to move the soul and , second, music’s consequent ability to aid or impede not only our question for a decent social order but also our striving for the goods in which we find …
One or the Other
“Teachers of the truth, and corrupt teachers, cannot both together have people’s affection, and no teacher readily will have weight, if he have not affection from his hearers” (Durham, p. 151).
The Giraffe’s Head
“Every Christian school must adopt an implicit, absolute, childlike wonder at the glory of the Scriptures. We must be people of the Book, knowing it top to bottom, front to back. And we must resolve, before the fact, to have absolutely no problem with any passage of Scripture once the meaning of that passage has …