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September 2018

September 27, 2018

Yoga in Public Schools

The Atlantic has an article about the growing use of yoga in the curriculum of public...

September 25, 2018

The Middle Ages Were the Age of Reason; Ours Is the Age of Faith

I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down. A good example appeared in...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Lutheran Educational Resources, Reading Lists, & Free Stuff

Summer vacation is over! Back to School! Good old golden rule days! For some families,...

August 02, 2018

The World Does Need More Cowboys

The University of Wyoming has put out an advertising initiative with the slogan "The World...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

Communism Is Back in Fashion

As progressives are moving further and further to the left, some are not stopping at...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Reading as Miracle

One of the superpowers most of us have but often take for granted is reading. ...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Why Would a High School Kid Shoot His Classmates?

We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

Do Academic Freedom and Tenure Apply to Conservative Professors?

Professor John McAdams was a tenured political science professor at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution...

April 23, 2018

Free Health Care, Free College, Legal Pot, & Reparations for Slavery

A high-level meeting of big donors, Democratic party officials, and politicians came up with three...

April 20, 2018

Millennials Don’t Know About Extermination Camps

In 1961, the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was put on trial for his role in...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Google’s Arts & Culture Site

Do you know about Google's Arts & Culture site? It's a rather remarkable virtual treasure...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

The New Edition of Luther’s Small Catechism

Concordia Publishing House has just released Luther's Small Catechism with Explanation, 2017 Edition. This updates the...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

The Ignorance Plague

Democracies require a certain level of civic knowledge and understanding so that citizens can effectively...

September 18, 2017

A Reformation best-seller to read and give away

Luther's Small Catechism is a marvel of clarity, depth, and spiritual insight. Used for centuries to...

September 13, 2017

The Natural Virtues, the Theological Virtues, & the Commandments

In thinking about "virtue ethics" and the Christian life, it is important not to...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Free Lutheran resources

My daughter, Deaconness Mary Moerbe, has collected links to a vast array of free Lutheran...

August 03, 2017

A classical alternative to the SAT & ACT

High school graduates who want to go to college nearly always have to take the...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

The academic effects of marijuana: A controlled experiment

Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands, with "cannabis cafes" being a fixture of university towns....

July 17, 2017

Discrimination in footnotes

Two geographers have written an academic article arguing that scholars should not cite research by so...

July 13, 2017

Reading the language of creation

I'm at the Conference on Classical Lutheran Education in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the theme of which this year...

July 11, 2017

Christian multi-universe theories

The scholastic theology of the Middle Ages was very much in thrall to the philosophy...

July 10, 2017

Jewish school in UK faces closure for not teaching LGBT issues

An orthodox Jewish school for girls in London may be closed down for refusing to...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

The history of Vacation Bible School

This week is Vacation Bible School at our church, as well as at others I'm...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Education and religion

Does having more education mean being less religious? That has been the conventional wisdom in...

April 27, 2017

Plantinga wins Templeton Prize

Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga has won the Templeton Prize for contributions to religion. Plantinga has...

April 17, 2017

Gorsuch’s first week will feature LCMS school

Justice Neil Gorsuch is now on the Supreme Court, and one of the first cases...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Student suspended for disagreeing with Muslim professor

Muslims believe that Jesus was not really crucified. According to the Qur'an, That they said...

March 24, 2017

The myth of learning styles

You know how some people are "right brained" and other people are "left brained"? And...

March 23, 2017

Group morality vs. individual morality

In the context of a discussion of the conflict between education secretary Betsy DeVos and...

March 09, 2017

The return of cursive writing

As we blogged about some years ago, teaching cursive handwriting had all but disappeared from our...