Let’s catch up. Several weeks ago, I shared with my readers that I was tossing the label of Calvinist. I said I would always describe myself as a “Reformation Christian” because I share- broadly- the commitments of the mainstream reformers in regard to issues of faith and church. While still a credobaptist, I do believeContinue reading “Christian Humanism: The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves”
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In the Classroom: Three Stories, Othello and A Christian Approach To Literature
In my AP English IV class, one of my most difficult tasks is teaching students how to read, think and analyze literature as Christians. There are several reasons for the resistance. Laziness. A feeling that the classics are irrelevant. Senioritis. (A very real disease) And one that concerns me most of all: the belief thatContinue reading “In the Classroom: Three Stories, Othello and A Christian Approach To Literature”
Christian Humanism: Beginnings
When it comes to ultimate reality and our humanity, there are really very few options. If there is no God, there is no such thing as the “human” in the classically Judeo-Christian sense. There is an existential human, thrown into existence and forced to determine his own identity by choices that are, ultimately, absurd. ThereContinue reading “Christian Humanism: Beginnings”
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