[Stanley] “Fish openly suggested that he was receptive to the prospect of both ideological indoctrination and ideological intimidation of students. He was equally blunt in responding to the classic claim of free speech absolutists that the beginning of censorship is a perilous ‘slippery slope’ that would result in pervasive and unpredictable restrictions on freedom. ‘Some …
A Green Acre of Goo
“The plenitude and magnificence of God’s works are all around us. Annie Dillard has observed that God is infinitely more imaginative than we are. Pretend, she says, that ‘You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up solar energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just …
A False Savior Saved
“In an important sense, every culture is the externalization of some religion. And every school exists to perpetuate and pass on that culture. As we look around at the great squirrel-cage run we call modernity, we see that most of us as moderns belong to a religion called Getting Ahead. In contrast to this attitude, …
Mornin’ Sunshine
Tim Bayly helpfully uncorks on those Christian leaders who are now seeking to sidle away from centuries of corporate cultural wisdom. Justin Taylor has a link to Al Mohler on the Da Vinci Code. Go, Al. My contribution to this discussion is for Christians to start calling the whole thing Daah Vincheeee. Mark Noll demonstrates …
No Miser of Grace
Our Lord, who knew the hearts of men, served the Lord’s Supper to Judas, one in whose heart the devil was already at work. Not only this, but the Lord also took off His outer garments, took a basin, and washed the disciples’ feet, including the feet of Judas – the same feet that were …
Two Doors
In the call to worship, consider the contrast of two doors. The first, found in Revelation 3:20, is the door of the church, a door at which the Lord Jesus Christ stands and knocks. This is not the door of an unbeliever’s heart, as so many today assume, but is rather the door of a …
One Mouth and Two Hands
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 90 “In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince” (Prov. 14:28). One of the great bugbears of this last generation has been that of “overpopulation.” If some …
Serene Self-Confidence
“Marcuse firmly believed that this process was capable of ‘objective’ and ‘rational’ determination. There was no danger, in their view, that the differential assignment of rights would backfire, since they were wholly confident that any rational being, once freed from the dominant group’s indoctrination, would agree with their own values” (The Shadow University, p. 75).
Just Don’t Pray At Them
“The debacle of the golden calf notwithstanding, the bronze laver for ceremonial cleansing was to be supported by twelve metal bulls (1 Kings 7:25). Not only were representations of nature prominent in the Tabernacle and Temple, but representations of supernatural beings, the cherubim, were everywhere—carved on the furnishing, woven into the veil of the Holy …
Not Hard to Figure Out
“The government schools will stop what they are doing when the American taxpayer stops giving them raises for doing it” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 28).