Can our kids be salt and light in government schools? (2 min)
Maybe… if they were trained. But in a government school who is training whom?
A 4-year-old can run an errand
This NPR article has a good dose of common sense but mixes it with evolutionary psychology so it isn’t something to swallow whole. Its value lies in its counter-cultural pitch: giving our children more responsibility at younger ages. The world wants to selectively give children more responsibility but in reckless ways, leaving them unguided and unprotected when it comes to sexual activity, or whether they actually are the gender God made them. We aren’t to abandon our children that way… but we also aren’t to coddle them. This is an eye-opener on how our children may be able to embrace responsibility at younger ages than we might have considered. It can start small, like getting a small one to go track down the milk by themselves the next time you’re in the grocery store.
Most men don’t have real friends (but need them)
“One hundred years ago, men were far more comfortable showing each other everyday physical affection: draping arms over shoulders, sitting close to each other, even holding hands…. The typical ways men have shown each other affection for all of human history are so foreign to us that, when we see them, we don’t recognize them. That’s the exact phenomenon C.S. Lewis wrote about in The Four Loves, when he said that “those who cannot conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a friend.”
The continuing importance of Thomas Sowell (10-min read)
Never heard of Thomas Sowell? This 91-year-old economist has continually made the case against public schools and does so again in his latest book Charter Schools and their enemies.
“Schools exist for the education of children. Schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, a guaranteed market for [graduates of] teachers colleges, or a captive audience for indoctrinators.”
God has the Left fighting itself (30-min read)
One of the ways God protects His Church is by having His enemies reap what they sow (Gal. 6:7, Prov. 22:8, Luke 6:38). This lengthy article provides example after example of the groups pushing the cancel agenda being sent into turmoil when their employees apply that same standard internally. The Saviour-less Left still believes in sin, but not forgiveness, leading to a constant state of dissatisfaction at what’s being done. And that leads to ironies like the abortion-pushing Guttmacher Institute being criticized internally by its staff for being too abortion-focussed, and not caring enough about reproductive justice. We can only pray that they’ll continue to distract themselves so.
This is a long read, but for the many who are distraught at what seems to be an endless flow of bad news what an encouragement it will be to see how God is fighting for us. That said, this reporter isn’t offering a Christian perspective – he’s reporting here as a friend of the Left. But those with eyes to see will have something to celebrate. We aren’t in these groups, so we can’t take credit for any of their implosions – this is the Lord fighting for us; we need only be still.
5 cool things about fish
Did you know some fish can: 1) regrow their teeth, 2) “see” with their skin, 3) out”run” Usain Bolt, “4) and incapacitate a horse?
Paul Tripp with 5 questions parents should ask their kids (12 min)
To discipline their children parents will often turn to fear, bribery, and shame. But these generally only work short-term. If we’re going to be on “Team Little Johnny” to help him become a more godly man, we need to help him see what he’s doing rightly. And we can help him do so, not so much by lecturing as by asking good questions.
