Some Christmas carols

Here’s a set of articles about the stories behind some Christmas carols. It’s the little things that make it interesting, like that Armenian Charles Wesley wrote “Hark how all the welkin rings” and his rival, Calvinist George Whitefield, changed it to the present version. Each story also has some music to sing along to. No piano? No worries. You’ve [...]

Raising Children on Sin

We have received from the Enlightenment a rather boring, two-dimensional view of man. We have learned to regard ourselves in binaries such as mind/body, right brain/left brain, scientific/artistic. On a good day someone might speak of the mind and the heart, but usually by heart he means appetites or emotions, and both of those, on [...]

On Justice and Judging

You cannot establish justice or be just if you cannot make judgments as to what is right and wrong. God help us if we continue any further down the path of “non-judgmentalism.”

Defenders of the Natural Sciences (they might want better friends)

Analyze this argument attacking Intelligent Design and see if you can find anything logical, based on evidence, or any other way indicative of the scientific method and not harking back to mere authority or ad hominems. Let me know if you find anything.

Choosing Heroes

We Christians have a different way of seeing things, of setting values, and that leads us to honor different heroes than those who see things more conventionally. We value God’s blessed creation, for example, so we honor those who make the great discoveries. But we don’t value it as an arbitrary, pointless thing that simply [...]

On poetry

Poetry exists nowhere but in nature.

The trouble with Education II

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The poor college can’t help it. It can only carry on functioning if it sucks up to employers, and charges the same for a five-week course that it used to charge for 10 weeks. What bad luck that my friend Mrs Fielding works there. The course she teaches on Byzantine studies [...]

The trouble with education

Even in England.
This is the trouble with education. No sooner have we got the hang of one new idea or method, learned how to do it, immersed ourselves in it and pinned our hopes on it, than it’s swept away and another is shoved in. Now it’s all quick-change again: lifelong learning and flexible or [...]

Leadership Qualities

Brett Favre has been named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. This article makes for a great study in leadership. Coincidentally, the Packers have just hired a new CEO. This article makes for a nice little case study of what to look for in a leader and what’s required for success. The Packers are [...]

Leadership Flaws

If you’re involved in school, you’re involved in leadership. Here’s an excellent entry from a leadership blog I like to visit on the need for humility among leaders. A checklist is provided of things to watch for in a “flawed CEO,” and it’s worth printing and reviewing every now and again for self-analysis or for [...]