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Baptist concerns re: common core education

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Brandon Hudson — No Comments ↓

I’m an invested party. I believe in the public education system as a grand experiment in providing the humanizing effects of education to all people. I have a minor in secondary education. I am married to a former educator. I…

Tagged with: common core, fiction, narrative, non-fiction, public school, story, Storytelling
Posted in Books, Education, Parenting, Public Policy, Social Issues, Theology

Three ways to spend Christmas book money

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Steve Harmon — 1 Comment ↓

In 1500 Dutch humanist and theologian Desiderius Erasmus wrote to a friend, “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Thanks to gift cards from Amazon or Barnes and…

Why we love the paranormal

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

What is it about the paranormal that Americans find so fascinating? A Gallup poll found that about 75% of Americans believe in the paranormal (ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, etc…) Nearly 50% believe in ghosts and 41% believe in extrasensory perception.…

Tagged with: Halloween, paranormal, scary movies
Posted in Books, Media & Arts, Movies, Spiritual Formation, TV

The meaning of life

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Fisher Humphreys — 1 Comment ↓

Following the Second World War several existentialist authors wrote at length about the meaning of life. One of these was Albert Camus, whose “Myth of Sisyphus” opens with these words: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.…

Tagged with: Camus, Christ, Frankl
Posted in Books, Faithful Living

“The Blind Side” gets blindsided

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Gary Furr — 1 Comment ↓

Baptist news wires carried the story recently about a successful protest by a Baptist preacher to remove a movie from LifeWay stores. The movie is “The Blind Side,” starring Sandra Bullock. It was based on the book by the same…