Esther Lightcap Meek challenges the ‘default’ way of knowing common to western civilization since the dawn of the Enlightenment. This default, attributed chiefly to Descartes, seeks knowledge by reasoning through various facts using laws of logic to reach conclusions that are ‘certain’. Meek shows how this is all wrong. She’s not a relativist. She maintains there is absolute truth but… Read more »
The Bill of Rights, first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, are precious to Americans. You can display them on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html and ‘paste’ the selected code where you want the widget to appear. Save your html and reload your site’s page… Read more »
George Washington copied these 110 rules as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman. Originally based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595, these guided Washington throughout his life. Now you can display these on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html… Read more »
Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses in Wittenberg in October 1517 is one of the most significant historical events of all time. These are now available for display on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html and ‘paste’ the selected code where you want the widget to… Read more »
In his early years, pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) recorded a list of 70 personal resolutions which guided him throughout his life. These are available for display on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html and ‘paste’ the selected code where you want the resolutions… Read more »
Here are several widgets we've developed for bloggers to easily display Proverbs, Words of Jesus Christ, the Shorter Catechism, Children's Catechism, Luther's Small Catechism, Heidelberg Catechism, Baptist Catechism, G.K. Chesterton quotes, George Washington's Rules of Civility, Luther's 95 Theses, the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights, Haiku Poetry, Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions, and quotes from great composers. My daughter Grace worked on… Read more »
(This is a copy of my my review at Amazon) You can know “what” without knowing “how”, but you can’t know “how” without knowing “what” – my short summary of this wonderful book. Modern science seeks to study complex things by isolating parts and assessing the various interactions between them. The book masterfully demonstrates that such a technique cannot be… Read more »
Anyone who has read the Bible even a little can’t miss the many references to farming, livestock, and landscape. After all, Adam and Eve lived in a garden, their downfall involved eating fruit, and Adam’s body itself was mere soil into which God breathed. And that’s from just the first few chapters. Until recently I tacitly assumed God based so… Read more »
Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton were the primary champions of Distributism, an economic system neither Capitalistic nor Communistic seeking widespread ownership of property as the chief means to household freedom. Chesterton’s chief work on the topic, Outline of Sanity, points out the troubles of industrialism and describes life under a Distributist scheme. Chesterton’s work does little to explain how such… Read more »
What to expect from a teenagerTeenager. The word can bring fear to any parent of younger children as they imagine their kids entering so-called "adolescence". Expectations seem universally low for modern teenagers. What can you as a parent and teacher reasonably expect from a 14 year old? Some look around and see culture in shambles and just hope to keep… Read more »
