8 Native American Marriage and Partnership Traditions Explained
Amy Granger When we think about weddings today, most of us picture white dresses, diamond rings, and a big party with music and dancing. But for many Native American nations, marriage and partnership traditions have always been about much more than a celebration. They are deeply spiritual, connecting not just two people but also their […]
Perfect Fear Casts Out All “Luv”
PETER KREEFT Have you ever noticed the amazing fact that most modern “religious educators” try to remove the very thing the Bible calls “the beginning of wisdom”? I mean, of course, fear — “the fear of the Lord.” An army of modern psychologists is on the side of the educators rather than on the side […]
Introductory Activities for Teaching Christology
Mimi McCaul Mimi McCaul, who teaches at La Salle High School in Pasadena, California, passes along to you some of the strategies she uses in the course Jesus of History, Christ of Faith. Thanks, Mimi! Introductory Activity Faith Portraits of Jesus The goals of the “faith portraits” strategy are these: a. that the students hear the story of […]
America’s Educational Crisis–A Christian Response
Albert Mohler – Crosswalk The American educational system is in an undeclared state of disaster, with competing ideologies and shifting worldviews undermining the very nature of education itself. In the state controlled school systems, ideologies of naturalism, secularism, materialism, and moral relativism shape the prevailing culture and worldview. A pernicious new imposition of “tolerance” as […]
Ignorance Extinguishes Faith
Yet who can fail to see, Venerable Brethren, that while men are led by reason and liberty, the principal way to restore the empire of God in their souls is religious instruction? How many there are who mimic Christ and abhor the Church and the Gospel more through ignorance than through badness of mind, of […]