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2020-07-28T19:11:29-04:00

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Hardish Times

Last updated on: July 28, 2020 at 7:11 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Like the knowledge that you will be hanged in the morning, bad economic times concentrate the mind wonderfully, but with the added advantage of being able to do something with what you have learned next week. What should we learn from hard times? If my bad finances are the result of foolish or wicked behavior, there is an obvious lesson to learn. Assuming that high returns can come without high risk is foolish. Spending your spouse’s retirement fund on a... Read more

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2020-07-26T15:40:27-04:00

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A Bully in Nanny’s Clothing

Last updated on: July 26, 2020 at 3:40 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

It is bad enough if bad information costs you the value of your 401-K, but worse if it costs your soul. Being told you are wrong is important at any time, but hearing that you might be wrong about critical areas is vital. Who wants to be wrong about the big questions of life? No friend would see such a major mistake being made by his pal without expressing his opinion and giving warning. This is especially true in the... Read more

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2023-02-27T09:07:19-04:00

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Long Pants (Happy Birthday Dad)

Last updated on: February 27, 2023 at 9:07 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Seventy-three years ago one little boy was disappointed. He got a very nice suit of clothes, what used to be called “church clothes,” but they had short pants. He had been hoping, trusting, that at ten he was ready for long pants, but his mother decided otherwise. Given the financial conditions of the times, where one wore out clothes before replacing them, that was going to take some time. Why did my dad want long pants for his birthday? Long... Read more

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2020-07-26T14:52:36-04:00

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Jerusalem meet Athens, Athens meet Jerusalem

Last updated on: July 26, 2020 at 2:52 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The American Declaration of Independence is wise when it appeals both to the truths of nature and nature’s God. Without a divine vision the people perish and without being able to count the cost, our grasp on the divine vision can fail through human folly, bad choices, and weakness. We need to know what should be, but also what is and can be. Too much vision and a nation cannot act, but too little and it cannot act well. The... Read more

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On Education

2020-07-24T12:48:04-04:00

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Global Anglicanism Finds a Voice

Last updated on: July 24, 2020 at 12:48 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Imagine a fan boy so full of admiration that he takes your name and moves into your house. Your family has always tried to reach out to others and so you allow him to stay with you as an act of kindness. Weirdly, after this fan moves in he becomes quite critical. He decides that many of your customs are unworthy of the family name and begins to demand that you change them. Your own children stop coming home because the... Read more

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Spiritual Reflections

2020-07-24T12:39:58-04:00

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Allow the Diversity of Life

Last updated on: July 24, 2020 at 12:39 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Every aborted baby looks alike, but every child allowed to live becomes absolutely unique. Abortion crushes liberty for a single choice- it ends possibility with the cruel actuality of murder. Roe should be overturned because by judicial fiat, it hallows killing the innocent as part of our Constitution. In a just society there can be no right to do evil. Not every evil should be illegal, but no evil action should be hallowed as a constitutional right. It took years and... Read more

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2020-07-19T15:27:48-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: A Midnight Cry (Part 7)

Last updated on: July 19, 2020 at 3:27 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Placing Christ over all, seeking Holy Wisdom, is true education. When I advocate such an educational program, I am not speaking merely theoretically. I am speaking from experience. Twenty-one years ago, by God’s mercy, I founded the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. There I taught hundreds of students from the perspective of an epistemology of belief. Not every student has done well, part of a good education is encouraging the ability to choose, but the vast majority have, many... Read more

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On Education

2020-07-17T19:08:23-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Toward an Epistemology of Belief (Part 6)

Last updated on: July 17, 2020 at 7:08 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Since the Enlightenment some have felt that reason is primarily about skepticism. Of course skepticism does have great value to the reasonable man. It helps us escape dogmatic slumber. It helps us avoid intellectual faddishness and frauds. Most importantly, it also helps the thinker frame useful questions. Fundamentally, it can induce a sense of intellectual interest or joy in the journey of discovery that would be impossible without a sense of questioning. For all its virtues, skepticism is merely a... Read more

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2020-07-17T19:05:32-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of the Prophetic and Miraculous (Part 5)

Last updated on: July 17, 2020 at 7:05 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Belief in miracles is ubiquitous in the West, but many Christian academics are shamed faced about their commitment. If God has acted out of His personal will, then it means that not all of the past will be explainable without the knowledge of that Divine will. It might even present an insuperable barrier to understanding exactly how past events occurred. If God used divine power to open the Red Sea, then no scientific account that relies only on natural forces... Read more

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2020-07-19T11:33:04-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of Religious Experience (Part 4)

Last updated on: July 19, 2020 at 11:33 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

William James in the Variety of Religious Experience carefully describes the nature, limitations, and importance of religious experience. At the very least, James argues that religious experience suggests that the materialists are wrong. There is more than matter and energy in the cosmos. Religious experience is of limited use in an apologetic, but of great use in living one’s life. Nobody can crawl inside my mind and know the quality and intensity of my religious experience. No human can know... Read more

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