Tuesday, May 14, 2024

‘Education’

Educating for Revolution or Revolution in Education

Sunday, December 4, 2016 16:26

. . By the Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro Rudyard Kipling, who received the Nobel Prize in 1907, the first Englishman to receive that prize, believed very much in spreading justice, adherence to the law, and Christian enlightenment in faraway lands.  His slogan for learning was: “I keep six honest ...

Educating to Discern Between the Lesser of Two Evils

Thursday, November 3, 2016 14:54

. .   By the Rev. Joe Renfro, Ed.D. We don’t always have the opportunities of discerning between absolute truth and absolute falsehood.  Sometimes the discernment between right and wrong, good and bad, is in the matter of degree, and to be able to grow in wisdom and understanding, we ...

Education and Patriotism

Sunday, October 9, 2016 17:15

. . By the Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro . San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem, as he said he was doing to protest what he deems are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.  He ...

The Profanity of Prayer in Academia

Thursday, September 1, 2016 21:49

. . By the Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro Prayer was basic to the formation and foundation of our nation. We were set up to be “One nation under God,” and prayer was basic to this.  However, change is in the wind--the wrong kind of change--to where things are changing ...

Sex Education and Sexual Confusion

Monday, August 1, 2016 21:19

. . By the Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro, Ed D Adam and Eve did not have gender confusion but were male and female in the Garden of Eden picture.  There was no question about transgender rights, which is much different from the situation in contemporary America.  Confusion is sweeping ...

Fatherhood and Education

Thursday, July 7, 2016 15:15

 . .      By the Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro, Ed D         Most any man can be a father; as it is a job that takes little talent. Education is irrelevant in siring a child, but not so in practicing fatherhood. There is a huge difference between sexual procreation and ...

Accommodating Transgenderism– Stepping Toward the Toilet in Schools

Monday, June 6, 2016 20:57

. .   By The Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro Under the flag of civil rights, the Executive branch of our government has issued the directive that transgender people, those who currently make up less than one percent of our population in America, have the right to use whatever public ...

School Discipline Has Gone to The Dogs

Monday, May 2, 2016 11:33

. . By The Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro It is interesting that the spelling for the word “God”, when reversed spells “dog.”  But it is distressing that in America that what was once regarded and basic to education was the Bible, central to learning in the early days of ...

Anti-Christian Bias in Academia

Monday, April 4, 2016 21:25

. . By The Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro There is an anti-Christian bias very much developing in our society.  Attacks come in respect to Christian morality, Christology, and the social influences of Christianity in our society in the educational patterns in our land. I was watching on TV a ...

Educating to Violence

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 0:00

. . By The Rev. Dr. Joe Renfro Do you ever wonder why our society is so stupid as to not see that we are engrossing ourselves so much in violence that we are actually educating ourselves to violence?   And violence brings destruction of something or somebody or a ...