Houses Made of Doorknobs, Part 2
In G.K. Chesterton’s words written for the Illustrated London News, “It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their form of religion, it also decided that they should be coerced about their form of education.”
It was this statement that ignited my thoughts that began this direction of writings.
My wife and I chose to begin schooling our two boys at home a couple of years ago. It was an experimental decision for the season. It first began as a matter of creative necessity as our travel schedule would have made public school very difficult for all of us. We were not protesting our public schools, nor the fine teachers who teach in our small town, we were simply taking care of our own family’s needs. Since that time I have become keenly aware of my own personal burden to see my children educated in the ways of the Kingdom and the truth in which it wraps our world. I have come to realize that no single school teacher in a room of 30 students can impart what I have been called to impart to my own children. It has been the weight of reality on my shoulders. It has become a very personal challenge and no longer a short-term experiment.
Houses Made of Doorknobs, Part 1
We have built houses out of doorknobs and it is time that we stopped.
Recently, an American reporter from the Atlantic Monthly magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, visited Castro at his invitation to talk about the Iranian nuclear debacle, and in the course of that interview he asked Castro some expected questions but got some remarkable answers. He also went to a dolphin show, but that is unrelated, kind of. The most remarkable answer was when he asked Castro whether the Cuban model was still something worth to export, the former leader replied "the Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." Castro, while promoting his new book at the University of Havana, tried to wriggle out of that one saying his words had been misinterpreted after the article was published, and went on to say he was really criticizing capitalism. Oh, how ridiculous.
Kingdom Politics, Podcast 2 of 2
Ben and Robin sit down together, read and discuss the most recent Churchthink article. This article focuses on how sons who belong to the Kingdom of their Father are to engage the philosophies and politics of this world...Part 2 of 2. About 38 minutes long, 35mb, stereo, as usual, 128K MP3.
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Kingdom Politics, Podcast 1 of 2
Ben and Robin sit down together, read and discuss the most recent Churchthink article. This article focuses on how sons who belong to the Kingdom of their Father are to engage the philosophies and politics of this world...
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Kingdom Politics
Our Approach is Radically Different
Yes, there could have been a better title, but it is the phrase that stuck on the refrigerator door of my mind and I can’t shake it off. I have been thinking on the subject of sonship and politics. Sonship is a term we use to identify our relationship with God as our Father, and the width and breadth of that joyful life. (We never use this term in a gender-specific way, but in a way that reveals our place in the Family.) Politics is our perception of the process of government’s decision-making and the philosophies guiding those decisions. This is not an article--to nip a weak idea in the bud--that will give you ammunition to win an argument, or put someone in a prejudiced category based on your own political ideas. Sons approach politics radically different, and we are going to take the time to discover how and why.