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By Dr. John Mark Reynolds I may be amongst the last high school students taught to use a “slide rule.*” Few are those who even know what this device is, so let me tell you what AI (Grok) told me about it: “A slide rule is a mechanical analog computing device used for performing mathematical
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As a Theology professor I like to wonder about how the theologians that I admire were educated. First of all I’m simply curious about their lives; but second, I want to know how I can help educate my own students in the beneficial ways that the great heroes of the faith were educated. We are
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By Dr. Timothy E. G. Bartel Do you know how to read? Do you? Of course, if you’re looking at the words I’ve written here, and if you’re understanding what they mean, it seems most likely you can read. If you were not literate—and we must remember that the majority of humans who have ever
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By Dr. John Mark Reynolds Without or without jazz hands, this verbal fanfare was one the first sounds learned by my kids raised in a theater-loving house with a trumpet-playing mother. If Mom could not perform a fanfare at that moment, this exclamation would do. Build a fort: “TA-DA!” Sing a song: “TA-DA!” Defeat a
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By Dr. John Mark Reynolds WhimWham, the two-year old granddaughter of whom few greater can be conceived, has come to the first stage of the Great Conversation. The Great Conversation began when God walked with the first human, it became less lonely when God created more than one of us, and it has continued. Dialogue
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By Dr. John Mark Reynolds At eighty-seven Dad will not, in all probability, win a race, arm wrestle as well as he could, or put in the long days he used to clock as a pastor. He is merely wise with the hard wisdom that comes from having lived a consistently good life. Dad has
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By Dr. John Mark Reynolds We stand at the end of a long tradition of secular and religious education working together in the fear of the Lord. “We’re number one!” That can either be a celebration or a boast. It can also be a lie. If it is hard to be a good loser, then
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St. Silouan the Athonite By: Jude Namee Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify should encourage, not discourage us.
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St. Seraphim of Sarov By: Jude Namee Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify should encourage, not discourage us.
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St. Paisios of Mt. Athos By: Jude Namee Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify should encourage, not discourage