Lee received word last week that he is likely to go overseas for six months in January. God is in charge, and He loves me, so I know this is a good thing. This week, I’ve been thinking about this passage and it is giving me rest. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there [...]
Filed under: Military Life, Wisdom
Somehow I’ve noticed that my middle child (who turns four in December) is still strugging with some things. She still screams when her sister does something she doesn’t like. She still struggles with obedience. She does want to please, but sometimes she misses the mark considerably. What’s more, I notice her two year old sister [...]
Filed under: Introspection
In our church, the children stay in the main service, and then are dismissed for the preaching. I like this approach very much, but it is a challenge keeping them focused on what’s going on. David’s always been able to sit still, but he’s just this year started singing. Since we’ve started school, he’s been [...]
Filed under: Salvation
In the beginning of the Great Gilly Hopkins, Gilly is a foster child meeting Maime Trotter for the first time. After three occasions of swearing, Trotter tells her “In this house, we don’t take the Lord’s name in vain.” It’s a rule that Gilly attempts to honor, but as might be expected from someone who [...]
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Over the course of history and around the world, the bulk of censorship discussions are of prohibiting adults from learning about or expressing some point of view. But here in the United States, that’s not the primary censorship battleground. The vast majority of censorship incidents concern children and teenagers and parents, leading one to wonder [...]
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Today we’re going to talk about challenges, and then tomorrow we’re going to talk about censorship in schools. Just what kind of challenges are offensive to the ALA? Take just a minute to scan examples here. Notice that most of the incidents occur in schools. Notice that in the introduction the challenge itself is highly [...]
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The ALA believes that all censorship and all challenges (attempts of censorship) are evil and inappropriate. It invokes the first amendment for all occasions of censorship, although the first amendment clearly refers to the government prohibiting the publication of materials. True, the courts have broadened the interpretation of the first amendment somewhat, but the basic [...]
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In the 1940s, a government arrested an individual for comments in personal correspondence criticizing a leader. He spent many years in prison camps and eventually in 1974 lost his citizenship and was expelled from his country for other writings criticizing the government (100 Banned Books, eds. Karolides, Bald, and Sova, pp. 56-63). In the United [...]
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