What to expect when your kids head off to college
“Hundreds of years of bad philosophy are about to immerse your child.” World magazine’s Andrée Seu Peterson warns parents that they better get ready to answer the challenges their child is going to come home with.
Time to kiss New Calvinism goodbye
While New Calvinism got a lot right, what it got wrong has been destroying it – its view of the church has been too ad hoc, taking more inspiration from the business world than it has from the Bible.
The problem with “Just do something!”
Another shooting in the US has people calling on the government to “do something.” But this call assumes the government is both able, and competent to address what’s wrong. And what’s clear from the many debates going on right now is most people don’t even understand what is wrong.
Why I fell out of love with Marie Kondo’s minimalism
“Popular minimalist blogs give helpful tips for ‘converting’ one’s maximalist partner. To set an example, I downsized my own clothing in the hopes that he would willingly give up some of his ratty t-shirts, and I constantly donated books I never planned on reading. ‘See!’ I would shriek, while maniacally stacking old casserole dishes in a cardboard box because they didn’t ‘spark joy.’ ‘See how happy this is making me?’”
FREE BOOK: A modernized edition of John Owen’s On the Mortification of Sin
It’s a favorite of John Piper, Tim Keller, and J.I. Packer. But John Owen’s 1656 classic On the Mortification of Sin is also really old, and Owens was never known as a concise writer. So there was a pressing need for a modernized version. A few years back Aaron Renn did the work, and now, for the the next two weeks (until Labor Day) he’s offering his updated version for free. You can download a helpful pdf outline here, and get the free Kindle (Mobi) version here, or the free EPUB version here.
Why everybody is suddenly allergic to everything these days
One possibility this secular video/article doesn’t get into is whether the apparent increase in allergies is caused by accumulated mutations. As Dr. John Sanford has noted, each new generation has approximately 100 more mutations than the previous one. This is a point that a secular article wouldn’t raise, because this precarious mutation rate doesn’t fit with evolution’s long ages. This rate would indicate that Man was fitter in the very recent past (a few thousand years) and is heading for demise in just a few thousand more.
