To Read or Not to Read (100 pp PDF/20 pp summary): “If, at the current pace, America continues to lose the habit of regular reading, the nation will suffer substantial economic, social, and civic setbacks” (Dana Gioia, Chairman, NEA).
One of the great things about going off to college is the combination of freedom and structure. Once you enter the “real world” you will never have that kind of opportunity again. Perhaps this is why some of my fellow alumni think that Covenant College has been losing sight of something so special, [...]
For the past couple years our oldest son has been attending a mother’s day out program twice a week at a sister church. Because of his October birthday, we decided that Fall 2007 would be the time for him to enter Kindergarten. Since the beginning of this year my wife and I have [...]
…changed my life?
Understanding the Times: The Religious Worldviews of Our Day and the Search for Truth, by David A. Noebel. I read this book in college as the basis for a class taught by of the toughest profs on campus. In true hedonistic fashion I signed up for two of his classes in [...]
By way of Stephen Levy’s Newsweek article I discovered Jaron Lanier’s essay titled Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. Below is a portion of Lanier’s opening salvo in which he says that certain aspects of Wikipedia are a symptom of a larger problem.
No, the problem is in the way the Wikipedia [...]
