SEEKING CREATIVITYTHROUGH CONSTRAINT
We live in a world where freedom means life without constraint. It is terrifying. It does not work. The laissez-faire parenting advice from a couple generations ago has contributed to our prolonged adolescence and an epidemic of thirty-year-old men living in their parents’ basements. Sparing the rod truly spoils the child (Prov 13:24). Life without […]
BUILDING IN THE MIDST OF A COLLAPSE
Today our major universities are revealing themselves to be hotbeds of leftist propaganda, with their students often graduating with enormous debt without the knowledge and the skills that they and their employers need. It has gotten so bad that much of the public is turning against the higher education establishment, with many employers realizing that […]
WHY SIX-DAY CREATION?
The fact that the Lord created the universe in six days is not to be underestimated. After all, Almighty God could have made the universe in an instant, as some of the ancient philosophers thought. He could also still have been in the process of bringing it into being after 13.787±0.02 billion years, as indicated […]
MINDING MANNERS
Take a few minutes sometime to listen to Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” and while you are listening, picture this: Peer Gynt, a Norwegian outlaw, quixotic and rash, stands in the court of the Troll King. He is seeking refuge among the brutish trolls. They will welcome him on one condition: […]
IS CHRISTIANITY UNREASONABLE?
You will hear people say that Christianity and reason are opposed to one another, or at least that Christianity owes no allegiance to reason. This stems from a misunderstanding. Reason is simply the application of logic to understanding. It’s what we use to make sense of things. There are three main logical systems. The first […]
CAN RURAL AMERICA BE SAVED?
Rural American, and thus the rural church, is at a point of crisis. We took on the noble goal of feeding the world, but we forgot to feed our neighbors. Our rural communities became food deserts, as incapable of feeding ourselves and as tied to the grocery store as any suburban community (indeed, in many […]
POSSESSIONS, REPUTATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Nary a month goes by absent a mainstream media headline about the “student loan crisis.” Over the past 30 years, student debt has increased more than eightfold to $1.7 trillion. It is the largest form of consumer debt apart from home mortgages, surpassing both credit cards and auto loans. Previous generations used to graduate college […]
AN ALL-LUTHERAN COLLEGE?
A student’s four years at college are some of the most formative years of a young adult’s life. As important as our upbringing is in the home, the culture surrounding young adults after they leave the home will shape how they use the tools their parents have given them. We see in most colleges and […]
DOING A NEW-OLD THING
Understandably, questions arise about the founding of Luther Classical College as a Lutheran College that is distinctly a Missouri Synod school and yet not directly sponsored by the LCMS nor under the Concordia University System. While this seems unusual, we are really doing a new–old thing. In other words, this is a return to the […]
THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS
The measure of success most touted by colleges and universities is a rise in student enrollment. The bigger, the better. The more students brought in, the more obvious the success. This isn’t necessarily the case even on a financial level, as the LCMS saw recently with Concordia Bronxville, which announced record enrollment just before shutting […]