April 24, 2008 – 12:35 am
Christine, aka The Thinking Mother made a good point on my post looking at how our virtual lives affect our personal lives.
Discussing the affect on children and teens doing role playing games or regular video games is very different than discussing adults who were socialized before the big video game craze and before the Internet [...]
Strong words from Tony Jones, author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. I don’t want to get into the emergent church debate. I don’t know that much about it, but if his current “dispatch” has anything to do with the emergent church, I think I’ll steer clear of it. [...]
March 23, 2008 – 12:59 am
This week has been a rough week. Last Friday, my daughter filled a toilet with blood and since then my heart has been heavy with worry. A week later, I sat in the emergency room watching the doctors take her blood again after several bouts of bleeding and dizziness possibly associated with blood [...]
February 12, 2008 – 5:11 am
Two years ago, a two year old boy in our church was taken to the hospital for a stomach virus. His family was expecting the staff to hydrate him, watch him for a day or two and send him home. They did not expect the tumultuous nightmare that would become their normal over [...]
January 6, 2008 – 10:46 am
A Woman on Purpose has an interesting post up on Truth and Consequences that caught my attention, although my own thoughts run in the opposite direction.
One of the fundamentals of the Christian faith is personal liberty. Most folks don’t understand that, because they have a mental picture of Christianity as being about arbitrary and stringent rules.
I [...]
September 4, 2007 – 2:57 am
In How it Should be Done, Rod Dreher (the Crunchy Con) shares his family’s path to education, from homeschooling, to disappointing private schools to the Providence Christian School. It isn’t just the academic rigor that attracted the Drehers, but its prohibition against…dare I call it socialization?
A small but telling example: Providence doesn’t allow [...]
August 17, 2007 – 3:30 am
I must confess I have a bizarre fascination with Richard Dawkins. If it weren’t for that, I might not have been interested in the fact that 25% of the British have some sort of belief in astrology. Or even in the fact that this constitutes more believers than any other single established religion. [...]
August 15, 2007 – 4:47 am
Between the excitement of “Back to School” and the pressure of No Child Left Behind, the topic of standards seems to be a popular one at the moment. Standards are important. Without them, we really do not know what we are trying to do or why. But in this era of standardization, [...]
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