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
The new math, deriving from Critical Race Theory, is no idle matter, but an insidious attempt that will impair children and destroy nations. It’s time to say no. To deny reason and reality is nonsense. Stanford University Economist and Social Theorist Thomas Sowell speaks very clearly. Ours may become the
Even in the so-called Dark Ages, one plus one equaled two. But today, Critical Race Theory scorns that reality as “White Math.” Mathematics dates its discovery and articulation as a discipline to Pythagoras of Samos (569 – 475 BC). Historians recognize Pythagoras as the father of mathematics. Princeton mathematician Sergiu
Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that was Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania. After high school he studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest. His circumstances and culture afforded little opportunity: he could hope for little more than being a
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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