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Rod Dreher
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February 23, 2018
children the way their friends and neighbors are doing it, not the way their parents did it,” says psychology researcher Judith Rich Harris, “and this is true not only in media-ridden societies like our own.”5
Trivium, which, as Dorothy
Baton Rouge’s Sequitur Classical Academy.
A good classical Christian school not only teaches students the Bible and Western civilization but also integrates students into the life of the church. At the newly opened Saint Constantine School in Houston, a classical Christian school in the
Eastern Orthodox tradition, president John Mark Reynolds’s model integrates the school as much as possible with families and churches. He calls it a kind of “new monasticism” that seeks to harmonize church, school, and family life for its students.
Legal experts say that Christian schools facing antidiscrimination challenges in court have greater protection if they can demonstrate that they are clearly and meaningfully guided by established doctrines of a particular church
and can demonstrate that they enforce these doctrines.
“We just can’t be sucked into the vortex that whirls madly around us, and we don’t want our children sucked in either,” she said. “We don’t want our children to think that
their only purpose in life is to get accepted to Stanford and make their first million before the age of thirty. We need to serve something—I believe, God—greater than ourselves, and schools of any stripe, at least here, do not teach you to do that.”
“College as we know it must die,” he says. “I’m not willing to have an inner-city kid come to school and borrow a hundred thousand dollars to get a baccalaureate degree that may or may not lead to a job, where they don’t see a full-time professor for two years. That’s the real world.”
Christians should redirect some of their political contributions to classical Christian schools. They are essential to the future of Christianity in America.
Father Boyd said that the problem we face today is standardization by low standards.
of them Sermarini
“We knew that we couldn’t live a regular life with a Christian coating, but had to change the roots.”
“But if you start changing things, and moving things where they are meant to be, and if you put God over all of it, then you will be amazed by how many things fall into place.”
Because of florists, bakers, and photographers having been dragged through the courts by gay plaintiffs, we now know that some Orthodox Christians will lose their businesses and their livelihoods if they refuse to recognize the new secular orthodoxies.
It wasn’t always like this. In 1603, the early English Puritan theologian William Perkins delivered a sermon in which he defined vocation as “a certain kind of life ordained and imposed on man by God for the common good.”1 Perkins explained that every man—king, pastor, soldier, husband, father, and so on—has a God-given vocation.
This is a profoundly Benedictine insight. A monk learns to do the task given to him for the greater glory of God and for the support of the community of believers. In the Benedictine tradition, our labor is one way we participate in God’s creative work of ordering Creation and bringing forth good fruit from it. When undertaken in the right spirit, our labor is also a means God uses to order us inwardly.
Work is good, but it is only good relative to its participation in the unfolding of God’s will and for the benefit of others.
Burning Incense to Caesar The temptation to sell out the faith for the sake of self-protection is by no means an abstract threat. We may not (yet) be at the point where Christians are forbidden to buy and sell in general without state approval, but we are on the brink of entire areas of commercial and professional life being off-limits to believers whose consciences will not allow them to burn incense to the gods of our age.
Progressives sneer at claims of anti-Christian discrimination or persecution.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a powerful LGBT pressure group, publishes an annual Corporate Equality Index. In its 2016 report, over half of the top twenty U.S. companies have a perfect score. To fail to score high is considered a serious problem within leading corporations.
Among the criteria the foundation used in its 2016 evaluations was that “senior management/executive performance measures include LGBT diversity metrics.”
A company that wants to win the foundation’s seal of approval will have to show concrete proof that it is advancing ...
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“If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men,” instructed Saint Paul (Romans 12:18).
Lee says. “You can be frustrated with the fashion industry, or you can be the fashion industry.
That’s the approach Christians are going to need to take when things get tough in the workplace. For example, teachers who don’t want to teach in the public school system can start their own tutoring companies.”
“I
know from the olive trees that some years
Christ into Jerusalem.”
schools for the service of the Lord. We do
