Comments (0) Not infrequently, you will hear politicians chastise members of the opposing party for being ideologically motivated. They are implying that ideology is not a good starting point for creating laws or policy. Continue reading 'Ideology'»
Which is more important, giving the right answer—or working through the material? Before I answer that question, let’s work through it. Continue reading 'Answer or Process?'»
We have been told, as the debate over health care reform unfolded, that health care is a right. Only one side in the debate was making this claim. I will leave it to you to guess which side.
Is health care a right?
Let’s begin by asking the deep philosophical question, “What is a right?”
Every time the Olympics come around again, I am struck by the unique spirit and drive of the Olympic athletes. They come from around the world, having spent the previous four years in rigorous training. That training often includes rising before the sun most every morning, and doing a great deal of preparation and work before most folks roll out of bed. It takes serious and sustained desire, ambition, self-denial, and just raw work, to maintain the peak of physical and mental fitness. Whole families, and even towns sometimes, become involved in the athlete’s training and support. All of this is done so that the athlete can travel to some distant corner of the globe to get one shot at gold—and perhaps miss it by a few hundredths of a second. Any little thing that goes wrong can throw the first place contender completely out of the medal running. Everyone knows that if you are out of the medals, you virtually cease to exist in terms of the glory of the Olympics. The journalists stop talking about you very quickly, and no one remembers your name. Continue reading 'Obtaining the Prize'»
Have you noticed? The nation in which you live and homeschool your children is daily becoming more hostile to professing Christians, particularly those who actually walk the walk. When Brit Hume, a Christian and Fox News analyst, suggested that Tiger Woods could find forgiveness in Jesus Christ, the outcry was scarcely less shrill than if he had called Tiger the “N” word. Continue reading 'You Live in Rome'»
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