Monday, December 1, 2025

‘Education’

Over-Drugged and Under-Educated

Thursday, October 1, 2009 0:01

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 gateway drugs of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana have increasingly become ...

The Intolerance of Tolerance

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 0:01

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 tolerance for all faiths, but some people are seeking to ...

Violence Violates Positive Behavior

Saturday, August 1, 2009 0:01

. 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 void within our youth, a void that keeps ...

Christ-Focused Learning

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 0:01

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 domain. We limit the revelation of God in Christ if ...

The Family and Moral Values

Monday, June 1, 2009 0:01

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 ...

The Moral Core to Learning

Friday, May 1, 2009 0:01

. 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 ...

Equal Opportunity In Education?

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 0:01

. 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

Sunday, March 1, 2009 0:01

  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 ...

Calvin for the 21st Century

Calvin for the 21st Century

Saturday, February 7, 2009 21:49

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 ...

Perseverance in Learning

Sunday, February 1, 2009 0:01

. by Joe Renfro, Ed.D., Radio Evangelist, Retired Teacher and Pastor, Box 751, Lavonia, Georgia 30553, 706-356-4173, joerenfro@alltel.net . My granddaughter, a first grader at a Montessori school, ...