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Reworking our idea of “career”
Back when I was in theology school, they taught us the standard definition of “Providence”: God’s everyday, common activity in the world to accomplish His will, in contrast to the miraculous. While miracles get most of the spotlight, I think Providence deserves more credit than we usually give it for the everyday outworking of God’s…
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You never stop missing your mom.
March 3, 1936 — August 25, 1996 I wish I had more pictures of my mom — I’ve got precious few in digital form (only the ones my brother has scanned), and not too many actual prints either. Kinda weird considering how many thousands of photos I have from my high school years … but…
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“Parent” doesn’t mean “Owner”
I’ve noticed a rising trend lately among the parents of younger students to define the “covenantal” part of NCS’s “Christian/covenantal/classical” philosophy thus: “Because the school has partnered with the parents, the school must give in when enough parents want something to change.” Or more bluntly, “we write the tuition checks, so ultimately we ‘own’ your…
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The Psalms. And Cans of Woop-Ass.
Taken (new movie with Liam Neeson) is a lot of fun. Not deep, not believable, not even “quality”… just ass-whoopin’ fun. There’s something satisfying about watching a father beat the shit out of the lowlifes who kidnapped his daughter. It’s gratifying in some way that is onlymarginally godly. (I think.) I’m not sure, actually, having read 75…
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The Call to Higher Mercy
Doing Much Ado About Nothing as a faculty play and teaching it to my English classes has provoked a lot of great discussions lately. Recently, my junior/senior AP students were discussing the crisis point in the play where Claudio chooses to defame Hero publicly at the altar for being unfaithful to him (so he thinks, thanks to…
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