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2020-08-19T22:08:32-04:00

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Old Vices Don’t Improve With Age

Last updated on: August 19, 2020 at 10:08 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The new morality is too often the old immorality tricked out in pseudo-scientific language or backed with force. Many seem to assume there is something new under the moral sun, but there is not. Some wish vice to be labeled virtue. Worse men bully and hate. Vice cannot be virtue and we must love our neighbor. Christians must not defy the laws of nature and of Nature’s God, but we also will not bully or hate. Some confidently say, “Applauding... Read more

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2020-08-19T21:59:03-04:00

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A Good School Knows When To Quit

Last updated on: August 19, 2020 at 9:59 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

A good school knows when to quit. Of course, a good school starts by knowing what to do, how to do it, and who should be doing the job! The problem is that if a school is good enough, the mission can grow too large. The more we succeed, the greater the danger we will start doing other people’s jobs . . . only badly! A school cannot replace imaginative play, family, church, or social organizations. Most learning, especially formative... Read more

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2023-02-27T09:23:56-04:00

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The Education Called Classical

Last updated on: February 27, 2023 at 9:23 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Classical education is education; everything else is a modification of the normal. Almost all American educational methods trace their origins to the splendid combination of Athens and Jerusalem. The result of Greek philosophy and Jewish revelation is the incarnation of education in Christendom: fully human and fully divine. There is nothing wrong with modifying a workable system, but good to know the nature of the system one is modifying. You cannot fix the operating system if you do not the... Read more

Education

On Education

2020-08-15T19:21:11-04:00

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Assuming about God?

Last updated on: August 15, 2020 at 7:21 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

“Assuming” when I was a kid led to somebody, usually the fifth grade know-it-all, telling us “assuming made an ass out of you and me.” Annoying as he was the kid had a point. If you just assume what you wish to be true is true, then you will often be a fool. This kind of assuming is fatal: epistemologically fatal. Growing up one learns that the same word can have two meanings and in sixth grade hilarity can ensue.... Read more

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2020-08-15T10:24:26-04:00

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Without a Better Vision: the theology or philosophy of an administration and the future

Last updated on: August 15, 2020 at 10:24 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Analysis of the race: This election, like most elections, hinges on the theology or philosophy of the current President and whether the public perceives it adequate to the times. An incumbent needs a narrative of why all will be better if he wins. This is generally true in democratic elections. If the President has a theology, a sense of the divine order and people believe he has a mandate from Heaven, a message that makes sense of our times, he... Read more

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2020-08-15T10:10:01-04:00

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You Might Find God, but not devils. . . (The Divine Hidden, but Reasonable. The Diabolical Obvious, but Irrational)

Last updated on: August 15, 2020 at 10:10 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Imagine for a moment that God exists. There is a perfectly good being. He loves us, not just in general, but each one of us. He loves you. He even loves me! This would be good news. The trouble, if you are a God of love, is the overwhelming nature of the divine presence. He is great and the power imbalance between His magnificence and our created nature is very great. God must allow us consent and so, though God is... Read more

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2020-08-13T16:15:35-04:00

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Because We Pray: Medicine Matters

Last updated on: August 13, 2020 at 4:15 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Christians know we are all broken. Nobody is perfect and so no human being can be trusted with total power. Institutions are often megaphones for personal power. In noble hands, like those of Reverend Martin Luther King, great good can be done with power, but even King was not perfect so that even the best of people and their institutions need a check and a balance. No institution is so pure, no intentions are so noble, that is cannot be... Read more

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2020-08-11T13:41:38-04:00

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Not Dreaming, Just Hope mixed with Faith seeking Understanding

Last updated on: August 11, 2020 at 1:41 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

If Disney is right, then “a wish is a dream your heart makes when you’re fast asleep.” If so, then nobody should base their life on dreams. Our hearts asleep are not doing the hard work of examining our own longings to see if they are just. There might be an exception. If as Plato suggested, and Joseph knew, the good God could speak to us in dreams, then these dreams might come from an undiscovered country and reveal much to... Read more

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2020-08-10T23:31:13-04:00

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Bad Conclusions Based on Bad Assumptions

Last updated on: August 10, 2020 at 11:31 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Knowing a little about something complicated is dangerous. Everything you believe can be true, as far as it goes, and you still end up clownishly wrong. When I was a boy, I thought that if I just learned all the facts about a subject, say the American Civil War, then I would know about the Civil War. Even as a child, I learned that knowing all the facts was going to be impossible, so I settled on the important facts. What facts... Read more

Culture

2020-08-08T22:30:52-04:00

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The Goodness is Fundamental

Last updated on: August 8, 2020 at 10:30 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We are awash in goodness, truth, and beauty. All we need do is raise our heads from the muck and see the glory of the Heavens. You, with every human being on the planet, are created in the image of God and so essentially good and worthy of love. The brokenness in us, in me at least, does not take away from the truth. Things are not as they should be, but the good God came to heal and give... Read more

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