Screens Are Changing the Way We Read Scripture by Karen Swallow Prior

Screens Are Changing the Way We Read Scripture by Karen Swallow Prior

In a Word-centered faith, the ability to read well is central. As a “People of the Book,” Christians have a particular calling to preserve and promote the gift of deep reading from physical Bibles

Interesting take on the effect of digital Bibles on our comprehension and understanding.

The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult by Adam Mill

The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult by Adam Mill

The Aztecs brutal system depended on a steady supply of prisoners of war and human children collected from the empire’s subjects as “taxes.” The scale of the murder one could find in just a single outlying Aztec city was astounding. Abbot relays, “they witnessed the most appalling indications of the horrid atrocities of pagan idolatry. They found, piled in order, as they judged, one hundred thousand skulls of human victims who had been offered in sacrifice to their gods.”

When assigning blame for history's horrors, we would do well to look, sometimes, at who exactly was being tormented.

Jerusalem Meets Athens in New Jersey by Elliot Kaufman

Jerusalem Meets Athens in New Jersey by Elliot Kaufman

Graduates of Heichal HaTorah should be “budding Talmud scholars,” says Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, headmaster of the all-boys Orthodox Jewish yeshiva high school. That’s not all. The boys should also appreciate “how unique this country’s values are, and how much America has done for the Jews.”

This just makes me happy!

A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Or, Why Victimhood and Fear Won’t Preserve Liberty by David French

A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Or, Why Victimhood and Fear Won’t Preserve Liberty by David French

Build on the bravery of past generations, so that the next generation doesn’t have to bear the same risks. As I said before, a very few brave students shredded the campus speech-code regime, a regime that looked like a legal and cultural juggernaut a few short years ago. Now there is a need for a few more brave students — a few more brave Americans — to stand with those people who face unjustified and illiberal shame campaigns, to plant your flag beside theirs.

David French has literally fought and encourages us to do the same.

Where Lincoln Stood on Slavery By Carl M. Cannon

Where Lincoln Stood on Slavery By Carl M. Cannon

In an 1864 letter to a friend from Kentucky, a newspaperman named Albert G. Hodges, Lincoln wrote, “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.” A month before he died, in a speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Lincoln said simply, “Whenever [I] hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Of course anything about Abraham Lincoln is going to get my attention and this is particularly good.

How Common Core And Screen Overdoses Are Ruining American Kids by Auguste Meyrat

How Common Core And Screen Overdoses Are Ruining American Kids by Auguste Meyrat

“Peppa Pig” and “Paw Patrol” cartoons do keep their children quiet and occupied, but it also keeps them from learning and growing. A screen addict, young or old, loses the ability to focus on anything for too long or think longer than a few moments. This then affects memory and comprehension, which finally affects all the higher-order thinking skills. The kids may be calmer, but they are also intellectually handicapped. 

When families choose to moderate or outright eliminate screen time, students can do remarkable things. They can start reading, conversing, and experimenting. They can practice remembering things and managing their day. In many cases, it doesn’t require some expensive tutorial program or intense diet of classic texts to become intellectually competent. It simply requires discipline and common sense.

Oh that parents would HEAR this message!