"Let his little flock be bold."
Posted in Culture, Education, Philosophy, Politics & Law, Theology on Aug 27th, 2012
While hopeful of a united front within the pro-life camp, I have dismissed an incremental approach that takes the form of gestational legislation. Please note, I do think some incremental approaches should be pursued, but not ones that legally discriminate against persons that fall under an arbitrary limit. But I also suggested that any success [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 12th, 2012
Margaret Wente has a column in today’s Globe and Mail, which identifies the problem with the Canadian public education system as the teacher’s unions, as I argued in a post the other day. She offers no solutions: apparently the obvious cannot be said out loud in the mainstream media yet. But the fact remains that [...]
Posted in Education, Politics & Law on Jun 7th, 2012
Bill 13 passed the Ontario Legislature this week. The bill requires all schools, even Catholic ones, to set up “Gay-Straight Alliance” clubs to propagandize for the homosexual acts as natural and good purportedly so that children and teens who experience any signs of gender confusion will be encouraged to be proud of their “sexual identity.” [...]
The most secular and left-wing province in Canada is Quebec. This was not always the case. Before the reforms of the “Quiet Revolution” in the early 1960s, politicians such as conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis enjoyed the support of the Catholic Church, most of the working class (particularly the non-organized), and Anglophone and American business leaders. [...]
Posted in Education on May 24th, 2012
Graduation season is wrapping up and there are now scores of university graduates heading off into the marketplace. I strongly suspect that a large percentage of these students are not actually better equipped for that marketplace as a result of having gone to university. Some may read this and conclude that it’s evidence that we’re [...]
Today, Christian parents have good reason to be concerned about what their children are taught in sex education classes in the public school system. There are countless stories of students receiving information very much in conflict with a biblical perspective. So what can we learn from American history? In The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation [...]
Wheaton College has come out against the Obama administration healthcare mandate the infringes the freedom of religious institutions. The Daily Herald reports: Wheaton College and other distinctively Christian institutions are faced with a near and present threat to religious liberty. Last August, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a mandate that the insurance [...]
See, you got to kick people out to be inclusive. . . especially religious types. See? One of Vanderbilt University’s largest Christian student organizations has announced it will formally break ties with the Tennessee school, becoming the latest victim of the college’s intolerant policy on student club leadership. Vanderbilt Catholic announced last week that is [...]
In high school, he had a 98.6 percent average, scored 100 percent in both math and science, placed second at a statewide spelling bee, and edited the high school paper (because he was put ahead one year, he finished high school at age 16). The warnings that Harvard University was inhospitable to southern Christians deterred [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics & Law on Jan 3rd, 2012
Before Rev. Jerry Falwell delivered his talk at Harvard Divinity School in 1983, Harvard theologian Harvey Cox explained to the audience: “Please understand that my presence here tonight should in no way be understood as an endorsement of what Jerry Falwell recommends.” Exceptionally bright and quick on his feet, Falwell took the microphone and countered: [...]