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 […]
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 […]
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 […]