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Classical education isn’t just a lifeboat

August 2, 2024

The main goal of education shouldn’t be moneymaking. It shouldn’t be self-actualization or gentlemanliness. It shouldn’t be good citizenship, however defined. It should be wisdom and virtue. Those two universal…

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Confronting the sexual revolution

August 2, 2024

Now, with the mythical “constitutional right to abort” revealed and reversed, an important social divide has become clearer than it has in many decades. Progressives see sex as recreational; traditionalists…

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When theology isn’t the queen of the sciences

August 2, 2024

If a reader were to pick up a medieval European text, he might find the author contending that theology is “the queen of the sciences.” Science, in this rendering, has…

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Christian colleges face a clear choice

August 2, 2024

A private Christian university is not a state school or secular institution. Christian schools must remain true to their founding principles. School leaders have no right to bide their time…

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Why would a preacher cast doubt on the authority of the Bible?

August 2, 2024

While Stanley’s centering on Christ is good, casting doubt upon the rest of the Scriptures will prove spiritually destructive and ecclesiastically detrimental. What gives a modern-day reader the right and…

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Evangelical responsibility extends to politics

August 2, 2024

Powerful forces for evil benefit from a politically disengaged Christianity. Christians hold vital convictions on sex, the sanctity of life, marriage, justice for the innocent, and the exploitation of the…