Posts Tagged ‘postmodernism’
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The good
I always thought home-schooling was the greatest thing since Sunday School. Here are a few of its many advantages:
They are isolated from evil influences.
They are exposed almost exclusively to the Truth. The way bank tellers are trained to recognize false bills is by being exposed only to real bills. They know to reject immediately [...]
The theme and the President’s activities
The theme of this years faculty retreat was our seven core values. The first of our seven core values is: “We are Christ-followers.” The first announcement was to tell us how the retreat was going to be organized. First, the new president would talk about the first value, then we [...]
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Someone sent out to our faculty a link to this article in Inside Higher Ed.
This started a discussion on the college faculty email list about diversity. Some of the comments by J H, a sociologist, really got me thinking. And just to let you know, Dr. H is now on notice in my book.
As is [...]
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Read the previous installation in this series!
I’m sad to say that this will probably be my last blog on Duane Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”. It has been a source of joy and encouragement for me and, I know, all of its readers.
Chapter 12 is called “Our Place in the Academy: CHALLENGE: To [...]
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Read the previous installation in this series!
“A Balanced Epistemology: Challenge: To Preserve the Idea of Truth”
I love the title of Chapter 6 of Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”. Balanced is the best word to describe Duane Litfin’s epistemology.
“It seems to me,” he writes on p. 110, “that we Christians have our work cut [...]
