Give Gen-Z Students Some Credit
If you tried to design an ideal setting for learning how to be a good neighbor, it would look a lot like a college campus. As the president of a campus ministry, I might be a little biased in that assessment. But imagine the reality that a brand-new college student faces when they come to Read more…
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School Screens Are Worst for the Least of These
Halfway through fifth grade, the school district issued a laptop to our son. Up to then, his “accelerated learning” classroom had been a pretty good fit. He had a great teacher, dynamic peers, and a pace that challenged and stimulated him. But with the laptop, our son’s learning immediately went off-track. He browsed the internet Read more…
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Taste and See If the Show is Good
Of this year’s Emmy-nominated television shows, my husband and I have watched all of The Crown, a fair bit of Abbott Elementary, and a couple episodes of Only Murders in the Building. We used to have a Hulu subscription, so we watched the first season of The Bear and several seasons of What We Do Read more…
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The Squandering of ‘God’s Not Dead’
A decade ago, Barack Obama was president. Louis C. K. was hosting Saturday Night Live. And the first film in the God’s Not Dead franchise was in theaters. You may know the concept: A college student stands up to an atheist philosophy professor who’s trying to bully his class into denying God. The two engage Read more…
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I Had a Horrific Childhood. I’m Glad I Exist.
It is midnight, and my phone is ringing. Blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I roll over to see my older sister’s name flashing across the screen. “Hello?” My sister says nothing at first. She is crying. The sound jolts me awake. “Are you okay?” I ask. Finally, she speaks: “I killed my baby.” Read more…
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