Category Education

Legislated Obedience?

Legislated obedience is shallow obedience.  It is inadequate in our public schools! In Galatians 3:24 it says: “…the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.”  In the verse, the Greek word, paedagogos, translated schoolmaster, referred originally to a…

Over-Drugged and Under-Educated

It can be said:  “We are over-drugged and under-educated.”  The moral supports enabling young people to just say, “No,” have especially corroded since the negation of the influence of religion was instituted in the public schools in the sixties.  The…

The Intolerance of Tolerance

Our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles basic to our democracy, the foundation of which spawned tolerance. This would not have been the case in an Islamic nation, for example. Our land, because of its religious Judeo-Christian heritage, set up…

Violence Violates Positive Behavior

. Many factors are being blamed for the breakdown of the moral development of the youth in contemporary America, but the sad thing is that the left-wing media and the forces that determine public education do not see a spiritual…

Christ-Focused Learning

One of the basic focuses of the reformed faith is the call to be Christ-centered.  This commitment expands the whole of learning for Christians. We realize this learning in the secular or empirical domain as well as in the spiritual…

The Family and Moral Values

What ever happened to moral values in our land? Moral values in our culture were once developed primarily through the family, and basic to the understanding of the family was the deep awareness of the Judeo-Christian upbringing. In the Christian…

The Moral Core to Learning

. There is an interchange in the Christian life, whereby in knowing God in Christ, there is a moral core for learning in all aspects of living.  There is knowledge of the empirical world together with the spiritual world that…

Equal Opportunity In Education?

. There is the question of equality, which is basically central to the American focus of life, but what is meant by equality, and does one type of equality, such as opportunity, mean the same as achievement?  If the government…

The Stimulus Bill Ignored an Educational Problem

  The $787 billion Economic Stimulus Bill now signed into law has $106 billion earmarked for education. The spending bill pays for special education, building repair, new schools, bilingual education, and many other things as it places the government increasingly…

Calvin for the 21st Century

Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary will be hosting its first conference August 27–29. This year’s theme is “Calvin for the 21st Century.” The conference will be held at the Calvin College Prince Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Speakers at this year’s…