James Loewen (2007) has written an interesting book on American history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. As the title intimates, this is a book about the errors and omissions of our history textbooks. One observation Loewen makes about our curriculum strikes me in particular. Loewen complains American history textbooks tend to make our ancestors look like heroes by ignoring sordid details. He suggests: A certain etiquette coerces us all into … [Read more...] about One More Reason to Trust the Bible
Archives for October 2015
The Glory of Every Person
In his essay "The Weight of Glory," C.S. Lewis considers the echoes of eternity found in every person. Occasionally, we encounter the "scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited" (Lewis, 2001, p. 31). Lewis suggests these faint echoes and deep longings reveal our true nature and destiny, that we were meant for more. The current world and our current existence are but echoes of our original self and intended life. But, as … [Read more...] about The Glory of Every Person
The Discipline of Retreat
This weekend the students at our church participate in our annual fall retreat. It is easy to think of a fall retreat as an event. But we try to think of our fall retreat as a spiritual discipline. M. Robert Mulholland Jr. (1993) describes retreat in these terms: Retreat is the discipline of setting apart a time, individually or corporately, to step aside from the normal flow of life and give God our full and undivided attention. While the disciplines of prayer, spiritual reading, … [Read more...] about The Discipline of Retreat