Groen Van Prinsterer
Ben House has a great article on the life and significance of the dutch thinker Groen Van Prinsterer, here: http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/christian-thinking-applied.html
"God’s use of Groen van Prinsterer fits that recurring pattern of God doing the unexpected to advance His Kingdom. He used an aristocrat to help the poor, a childless couple to promote Christian education for children, a historian to chart the future for the Netherlands, and a servant to the royal family to start a political party for the common people. "
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Michael Behe: The Edge of Evolution
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Expelled The Movie
Advocates of Intelligent Design have bene expelled from the academy in America for their anti-evolutionist views. Ben Stein sets out to expose the fact in a new film: Expelled: The Intelligence Allowed. See the trailer here: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Fiction
"Stories frame a child's interior life for living in this world. Fiction is far more realistic than we realize. Fiction and poetry mysteriously transfer truth in a far more powerful way than anything else. God Himself chose to write in passionate poetry and narrative and parables rather than in the bureaucratic style of systematic theology. But again, parents have to lead the way. Many parents, however, have little taste for fiction though they allow it for the "little kids". Some parents disdain fiction because they are bony pragmatists, not having the time, but others even claim that it is unspiritual ("I just want Scripture"). Though I couldn't prove it in an ecclesiastical court, I'm beginning to suspect that parents who don't enjoy fiction must have some serious spiritual problem lurking about, either in a very distorted view of spirituality or in a rejection of beauty. They are like the person who ungratefully refuses to delight in God's handiwork in nature. Time will tell in the lives of their children." (Douglas Jones, Angels in the Architecture. p. 124)
Mona McNee & Alice Coleman
The Great Reading Disaster: Reclaiming our Educational Birthright
Imprint Academic. 2007
Illiteracy rates have fallen to such a level that even the government has noticed, even though many are still in denial, and is trying to act or react. But the roots of the problem run deep: family breakdown, lack of discipline at home and in school, ideological teacher training, and the failure of, what these authors call, the Progressive method. The culprits are "look-say", "whole language" amongst an array of other broken cisterns.
This is an important book for homeschooing parents because we do need to be very clear on the issues at stake in the "literacy wars". Two different worldviews stand in opposition, one that wants to re-make children with new methods and denigrate the older, tried and tested methods for teaching children to read. The Progressives have set themselves against the very structure of our language (as a phonetic language) and have created a generation or two of illiterates, people who shall be lead.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Douglas Jones & Douglas Wilson: Angels In the Archietcture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth (Canon Press)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
THE Book for Fathers on their Sons



