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Train Up a Child: Becoming People of the Word in a Culture of Images
Vol. 10, No. 1 • Jan/Feb 2001
Listening is a difficult business these days. We live in a talk-show culture that makes everybody’s opinion as good as anyone else’s, where the now arrogant vice of believing in the true, the good, and the beautiful has been replaced with the apparent virtue of following the useful, the preferred, and the stimulating. Seducing distractions […]
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Learning to Hear Again in a World of Noise:
Listening is a difficult business these days. We live in a talk-show culture that makes everybody’s opinion as good as anyone else’s, where the now arrogant vice of believing in the true, the good, and the beautiful has been replaced with the apparent virtue of following the useful, the preferred, and the stimulating. Seducing distractions […]
Is Theology Practical?: An Interview with Ellen Charry
Our “Free Space” column, unlike the feature articles, is the opportunity for those outside of our circles to respond. It doesn’t imply editorial endorsement, but encourages the open exchange of ideas. -EDS MR: You weren’t always a theologian. How did you become interested in this vocation? EC: It is not exactly that I became interested […]
Charles Hodge on Christian Nurture
[It is] a scriptural truth that the children of believers are the children of God; as being within his covenant with their parents, he promises to them his Spirit; he has established a connection between faithful parental training and the salvation of children, as he has between seed-time and harvest, diligence and riches, education and […]
Applying God’s Word to All of Life?
The motto that appears on the bulletin cover at my Delaware congregation reads: “Applying God’s Word to all of life.” It sounds very good, but it needs refinement. We hold that the Word of God is addressed to the whole man and to the whole of life. The problem is that there are a number […]
Home Schooling: Recovering the Disciplined Art of Catechesis
Historically, many Christians have thought that the main context of religious and moral instruction takes place in the home, not in church. That is why the Protestant Reformers prepared catechisms-manuals of instruction summarizing the Bible’s basic teaching, to be learned by rote in the earliest years (like a new language) and then investigated, elaborated, and […]
The New England Primer
A little more than three hundred years ago, The New England Primer was introduced in Boston as a textbook for the instruction of the colony’s children, not only in the basics of the English language, but in the basics of Christian doctrine and Bible knowledge. This small volume served America as the primary text for […]
