On the basis of over 40 years of full time college teaching of almost 20,000 students at 20 different schools, I am convinced that one of the reasons for the steep decline in students’ reading abilities is the decline in the teaching of traditional logic.
Mortimer Adler’s classic How to Read a Book is based on the traditional common-sense logic of the “three acts of the mind” [simple apprehension, judging, reasoning]. . . .
If I were a college president, I would require every incoming freshman to read Adler’s book and pass a test on it before taking other courses.
(Im)Possible: One-on-One with Lon Allison about His New Book on Evangelism
First of all, God is the evangelist. His prevenient grace is at work in a person’s life before we ever pray a word for him or her or talk to him or her about Jesus. God makes Himself evident to all according to Romans 1. When we show up to witness, God is already there.
Second, we cooperate with others. To coin a phrase, it takes a village to save a soul. I’ve found that most Christians trace their own journey to Jesus Christ through at least seven people. We each have different roles to play in different people’s lives. Some sow, some water, some harvest. It’s incredibly freeing to know you are not alone in witnessing to a person. Others were there before. Others will follow. God is present and working in the whole journey.
Why Deportation Could Mean Death for Some Refugees
More than 150,000 families have sought asylum in immigration courts in the United States since 2014. Less than 30 percent have secured representation. And without an attorney, fewer than four percent have won refugee status, despite many passing a preliminary interview with an asylum officer before trial.
In contrast, since May 2015, we have coordinated volunteer attorneys and law students to represent all families forced to go to trial while held at the immigration detention facility in Dilley, Texas. Every family represented by our teams has won their case—with no filtering on our part for strength of claim.
In Republicans’ views of a border wall, proximity to Mexico matters
A new analysis of this data finds that 63% of Republicans who live less than 350 miles from the border support building the wall, compared with 34% who oppose the wall. Those who live at least 350 miles away from the border, by contrast, are more supportive of the wall (76% favor, 21% oppose).
Jesus calls us to radically live… exactly as we want
We work to convince ourselves that the Bible fits our preferences. We try to make it say what it does not say, or assert that the things we don’t like were surely for people a long time ago in a different place.
Scripture speaks of us as foreigners and aliens who are citizens of a heavenly country. We seem afraid to be different than our culture and in fact convince ourselves that Jesus does after all want us to live in ways that do not offend our culture.
What ‘Waiting for Marriage’ Looks Like When You’ve Already Had Sex
You are more than your mistakes. You are loved, precious and worthy. Whatever it is that you are dependent on or in bondage to, God is offering you a fresh start.
Fake news website starts as joke, gains 1 million views within 2 weeks
His first story was a fabricated tale about how Obama allegedly ran a pedophile ring out of the White House, and then McDaniel decided to create more. He started posting the links he created to Donald Trump fan groups on Facebook to see if they would take the bait.
UndergroundNewsReport.com was launched Feb. 21. In less than two weeks, more than 1 million people had viewed stories on the site and spread them across social media platforms.
Malta’s Landmark ‘Azure Window’ Rock Formation Collapses
The BBC added that in recent years, tourists have apparently done some damage to the formation by “jumping off the arch into the sea, dislodging clumps of rock in the process.”
Authorities introduced fines for walking over the arch, according to The Guardian, but they were “rarely enforced.”
Fake news? What is Esquire now on the internet? Why are those papers placed prominently at the checkout?They sell tons. People eat it up.