Public education: prey of the new sexual ideology. The LGBT community wants to redefine marriage. The transgender community wants to redefine human sexuality and even eliminate the concepts of binary sexuality and traditional marriage from our vocabulary and culture. All of the above are seeking to influence children in the
Separating the Word of God from academics in school has spawned a debilitating yet popular mindset known as “SSD,” or the “Sacred-Secular Divide.” This dualism constricts the Light of Scripture to Sunday morning sermons, and does not apply it to business, law, medicine, art, civil governance or anything else outside
If the Bible is irrelevant to the most important things taught in school, then it will certainly be irrelevant to the most important things outside of school, too. This is the devilish outcome of dualism. In the end, we all lose. Is it any wonder the biblical foundations for law, civil government, economics and family
Was J. Gresham Machen prophetic when he spoke of state-sponsored education? Our most popular blog post is titled “School vs Education: The Difference Matters.” Obviously many readers of Darrow Miller and Friends have a keen interest in education. Recently I came across a quote on state-sponsored education from theologian J.
Words aren’t generally religious per se, but some words are clearly associated with Christianity. Not just technical terms like sanctification or dispensationalism but everyday words like bishop, chapel, devil, disciple, minister, sin. Words children use. Nevertheless, more than a decade ago, editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed those very
The Puritans, like the Bereans before them, regarded the scriptures as the ultimate trump card in the trilogy of God’s revelation Truth is both revealed, and hidden. It is revealed through the word of God. As Jesus prays, in John 17:17, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
By far the most widely read of all our blogs is School vs. Education: The Difference Matters. Now Canadian essayist and poet David Solway has written a disturbing piece of similar tone at PJ Media, The End of Education. Consider this excerpt: It has taken a hundred years to ruin
A call to build education around God’s Word, Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘It means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’” (Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll) One of the distinctives
Language is God’s gift to humans “No single book has so profoundly affected universal expression as has the English Bible.” (The Bible in English Literature, Edgar Whitaker Work, 1917.) Language did not evolve! Man did not crawl on all fours grunting like an animal for millions of years before he
Kimberly Brancato and her sons In January 2017, I accepted a temporary job teaching Language Arts to eighth graders at Highland Park Middle School in central New Jersey. I took over the established curriculum, teaching Animal Farm by George Orwell. During my second week, several students said that newly elected
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