Saturday Selections – April 25, 2026

Why Johnny can’t read: not enough phonics

Phonics is a part of the solution, but two other key ingredients are, first of all more parental involvement – to become readers, your kids need to be read to. Parents, whether you homeschool or don’t, God has appointed you as your children’s teachers (Deut. 6:4-9).

Secondly, we need to end the public system, where the State and teachers’ unions take on a role God gave to us, pretend to know our children better than we do. Imagine if instead of one school system, individual schools had to compete for students: they’d have to market their results, and parents could then choose from among a menu of schools what was best for their particular child. Instead, governments across North America have decided they know what’s best for everyone, and have inflicted learning experiments on children in state-wide and province-wide fashions. Then, if the experiments fail, it isn’t just a few children that were impacted but children en masse who were hurt.

Wealth “gap” in Canada mostly an age gap

The world touts any wealth inequalities between groups as a reason to forgo the 10th Commandment and envy what our rich neighbors have. Envy is, in this scenario, painted as virtuous, because their envy is motivated by a wish to help the less fortunate with the money our neighbor has. But what if we noticed that most of the rich are also old? And most of the poor are poorer because they are younger, and most will be better off in time? That would undercut the momentum to pillage the rich, wouldn’t it?

5 myths about C.S. Lewis

Even when these myths get it wrong about Lewis, they are still interesting, like that he never read a newspaper because if anything important happened someone was bound to tell him. Turns out not to be true, but it did still highlight how Lewis wasn’t a reactionary – very unlike today’s hot take culture, he responded to trends that went back centuries, not seconds.

When “conservatives” ditch Christianity, they end up here

Dave Rubin, Douglas Murray, and the DailyWire‘s Spencer Klaven are all “gay conservatives” and how can that be? It’s because “conservative” is a term that only has meaning in comparison. If that fellow wants to destroy all of Western Civilization, and I want to destroy only half of it, I would be the conservative anarchist. And if that same guy wants to euthanize all the disabled babies now, and I want to wait a few years, I am, again, the conservative in the conversation. But the conservative eugenicist.

So yes, conservative and gay can go together. Which is why God’s people need to understand we are Christians, and not simply conservatives.

Appreciating the Irreducible Complexity of the human foot

We are amazed at the brilliant engineering of the Roman arch, but what of the foot that has 3 separate arches integrated in its design? We are indeed wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14)!

The secret religions in your favorite movies (4 min)

Expressive individualism – your feelings should be your guide as to what is good, and true, and right – is being pitched at our kids. But what does Jesus say about following our heart (Luke 9:23)?

(This one ends abruptly, like there was another 5 seconds cut off, but by then her point is made.)