You Can Feel It Throbbing
Always There
“In A.D. 500, you didn’t have to deal with the algorithms. You didn’t have a device in your pocket that pings you with a notification whenever you get a new incoming lie.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 53
Where Was Your Face Before You Washed It?
Preamble to My Introduction: ACCS is a decidedly Protestant organization. But as you look around the classical Christian world of education, you will notice the involvement of not a few Roman Catholic and Orthodox educators, many of whom we consider to be friends. But—friends or no friends—we remain decidedly Protestant. My task this morning is …
The Only One
“Christ is the standard for every man and woman, for every boy and every girl. He is the path we must run. He is the only curriculum.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 52
Honest Work, Honest Wages
Introduction: The problem of dishonesty in our work and labor is a difficult one to address because it is often the case that the first one “lied to” is the liar himself. He is dishonest ...
Not in the Bill of Rights
“Young people do not have a constitutional right to be silly.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 52
Letters for Fun and Profit
Letter to the Editor: I was wondering if you could share how your community/churches organize and execute your Psalm Sings and events in the community. Are they more or less your version ...
Keep It Tough
“Math will hurt their feelings, because math reminds everybody of the Last Judgment. The answer is right or wrong, and you can’t blow sunshine at it.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 51
Israel, Iran, and Good Old Vermont
Introduction: Whenever I write anything about Israel—anything whatever—I open up my Twitter feed a couple hours later only to discover a misty cloud-sourced analysis of my many and sundry ...
How Centuries Sanitize Things
“So in this powder key called Jerusalem, what did Jesus do? Did Jesus come in to pour soothing oil on troubled waters? No, He went into the Temple, for crying out loud, and started flipping over tables . . . We call it the cleansing of the Temple, of course, because it is thousands of years in the past, and we read a bronze plaque about it in the Museum of Heroic Bygone Deeds. What would we call it if it had happened last week? Vandalism? Performance art? Prophecy without a permit?”