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The Case Against Marriage

  ‘Get Married’ and ‘Family Unfriendly’ Review : The Case for Wedlock Two spirited volumes take aim at the difficulties—and the cultural attitudes—that have discouraged couples from getting married and having kids. First Tier Doctrines https://michellelesley.com/tag/first-tier-doctrines/ Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case Against Marriage https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400827138.17/html Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400827138/html Albert Mohler: The Case Against Marriage: Courtesy of Newsweek https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/876/2010-06-25.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Why the most successful marriages are start-ups, not mergers https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/happiness-marriage-startups-mergers/675611/ Marriage As a Wretched Institution (November 1966 issue of The Atlantic) https://www.theatlantic.com/idea...
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College: A Disposition 6 May 2024

Mere Christianity: "No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good." “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” Dumbledore The ideal of a college education is for people who would rather serve than be served. Jesus came to serve and the tradition that grew in His wake stands out in stark contrast to the traditions of all other cultures and religions. He is the one God who not only created all and claims all authority, but who took on human flesh, came to serve, and sacrifice himself for our moral error, preserving justice in its perfect form, glorifying Himself, His Father, and His Spirit, the Trinity within the Godhead.      The true college student loves a life of service. He is humble and does not mind having his opinions exposed to truth. Acquiring the ability to sit in a class and learn to hear, understand, and highly value another person's thoughts does not come easily and...
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Losing Our Youth

Description:            A Thirteen-year-old female was shot yesterday in Raleigh. We hear of teenage murders in Raleigh several times per year.  It is tragic to read in the news of young people dying violent deaths in the impoverished neighborhoods of Raleigh, N.C. By the time a young person is shot, the situation has already gone far beyond any interventions that could have made a dramatic difference in the possible trajectories of that person's life.            R aleigh is the principle city in this region of the state. We in Wake Forest share a lot with Raleigh. We bus students in to our schools here, from neighborhoods all across North Raleigh, in an effort to integrate people from differing backgrounds. They help us to excel in interscholastic sports, such as football.           But their problems stem from deeper roots that are not addressed so well merely by putting the disadv...
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Church Buddy Call :: Being Available

                                                      Church Buddy Call                     2024 March 25      A  good c hurch buddy called at 6 or 7 this morning and we had a wonderful chat, or, as best as you can expect over the phone.      In parting, he asked me how he could be praying for me.   I asked for prayers that I could rest transparently in Christ with fuller satisfaction so that I would not feel the urge to self-medicate with more food (typically corn chips). But, I should have asked for something more dear to my heart. Hindsight is 20/20.  Availability:     Please pray that our church members make themselves more available for each other, that we can knock on doors and visit freely, hanging out indefinitely, face-to-face....
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Cross-over Scholars

       I dislike scholars who presume to merit attention when they propound upon topics clearly outside the purview of their field, shooting from the hip, as it were, or speaking from their feelings and opinions on the new subject, foreign to their field of study. This tendency seems to have become increasingly common in just the past few decades, precisely because it has been tolerated, even encouraged, within academia.          That said, I do like scholars who get a second Ph.D. and/or then develop extensive familiarity with the literature of a differing field from their initial Ph.D.          The man who drew me into graduate studies in business (from my heavy humanities background) taught me just one course (the sole course I had ever had in business or social science, an undergraduate level introduction to organizational behavior.  He had a Ph.D. in OB, built upon a previous Ph.D. in Philosophy fr...
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A New Job

2024 March 20      I began a new job about six weeks ago, and it has been enough time to see me adjust and adapt, with the LORD changing me in several ways:  A. to fit the new schedule, B. to Show his glory, and C. to use my adaptation as an object example to my family members and to members of my local community of the saints.    Long Term Sub:       I am a long-term substitute teacher at the local high school.  It maketh me to want to continue study of math to where I am competent in all areas taught in NC public high schools.  And, to where I am adept at basic calculations in my head, quick to add and multiply three-digit numbers or maybe even four someday!  It would be a good influence to my students for them to see me grow in this respect.  At my age, they would get the infectious sense that anything is possible for their young minds... if but they apply themselves with vigorous love and affection for math. ...
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Material for MA Ethics Paper 2024:

https://www.prageru.com/video/honor-your-father-and-mother
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