It’s going to take more than a ban on critical race theory to make Virginia schools great again. On Election Day, political newcomer Glenn Youngkin upset Terry McAuliffe to be elected governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which a year ago voted for President Biden by ten points. McAuliffe enjoyed
God has a big agenda for the world. His intention is to see people in personal relationship with him through the salvation secured by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has also called the saved to be transforming agents in society. God’s special revelation, together with general revelation,
For years, the educational establishment has been begging for parents to be engaged in their children’s educations. File this under “Be careful what you wish for.” In the sixth century BC, Sun Tzu advised military commanders to “Balk the enemy’s power; force him to reveal himself.” Over the past two
Everyday, behaviors and customs that seem normal in a given culture are rooted in belief systems. When these behaviors are harmful, much effort may be spent to eradicate the behavior without addressing what is driving that behavior. Abortion, for example, considered normal by many people in the West, is the
Image by Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC 4.0 Former General Attorney Bill Barr recently gave a devastating analysis of public-school education in America, coupled with a radical solution; families with school-age children would do well to heed his counsel. More on that below. But Barr was not the first to publicly
This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math The new math, deriving from Critical Race Theory, is no idle matter, but an insidious attempt that will impair
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math Even in the so-called Dark Ages, one plus one equaled two. But today, Critical Race Theory scorns that reality
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that
If God is dead, everything based on His existence—love, morals, truth, beauty, the significance of each human life, etc. … all of that is dead as well. So is education. Fredrick Nietzsche put it this way: When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality
From our good friend Christian Overman … John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States, declared: “…we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate
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