Tag Archives: Education

Once Not a People: Balancing Our Gracious Heritage

Posted on May 12, 2026 by RC

The RC Sproul Jr. Principle of Hermeneutics is a simple truth, and a deep passion of mine. You remember it. Whenever someone in the Bible does something really stupid, do not say, “How can they be so stupid?” Instead say … Continue reading →

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The Philosophy of Philosophy: Love It or Hate It

Posted on April 30, 2026 by RC

Teaching philosophy is in my blood. I don’t just know how to do it, but I love doing it. Most of the classes I’ve taught over the years have consisted of people not planning to become professional philosophers. There aren’t … Continue reading →

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How Can I Become More Well Read? Four Suggestions

Posted on April 13, 2026 by RC

By reading well. Nothing too complicated about that. As with many good habits, the challenge is not that performing the habit is too hard, but that it is not easy enough. That is, we don’t like to exert ourselves. As … Continue reading →

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Ruth and Naomi; Jayden Ivey; Chisanbop; Introducing Paul

Posted on April 1, 2026 by RC

Check out this week’s podcast. It has a little bit of everything. Quality ingredients, combined with love and technology. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Oh Brave New World, With Such People In It

Posted on March 6, 2026 by RC

Neil Postman, in his delightful albeit ominous book Amusing Ourselves to Death, draws an insightful comparison between two important dystopian novels. Utopian novels, of course, are those designed to show us edenic cultures. Dystopian novels show us hellish futures. The … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Master, Not From Our “Masters”

Posted on February 20, 2026 by RC

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” Such is the wisdom one can expect to find on a car’s bumper. Wisdom, however, is found in God’s Word, which, surprisingly, says not … Continue reading →

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Why are we so stupid? Examining Our Besetting Wrongness

Posted on February 9, 2026 by RC

It’s not at all unusual for us to shake our heads at the world, to bemoan the stupidity of the common man. Which is kind of weird, since we are all common men. We somehow think that we have risen … Continue reading →

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The Stinking Lesson of the Stinking Garbage Can

Posted on November 20, 2025 by RC

Experience is overrated. We often learn its lessons too late. Though once it has aged it can pack a punch. My father, about the time I entered into junior high school, impressed upon me the lesson experience taught him too … Continue reading →

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Be Careful Little Children What You Hear: Listen Now

Posted on November 4, 2025 by RC

There is a steep penalty to pay for our steeply declining level of discourse. As a culture we have grown radically more emotive and radically less thoughtful. We communicate in 280 characters, through memes, with the broad brushed strokes of … Continue reading →

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Our Illiteracy: The Shameful Ignorance of our Churches

Posted on October 16, 2025 by RC

Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones. Moses and the burning bush. Hosea’s marriage to Gomer. These are not obscure stories hidden in out of the way books of the Bible. Yet each of them I have recently found were … Continue reading →

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