Always Reforming

Education has been in the news, or at least in the memes, of late.  Some have expressed disgust at New Jersey requiring schools to teach LGBT history, while Trump's support for teaching the Bible in schools has received varied responses.  It seems the liberals are getting more liberal, while the conservatives are trying to maintain some semblance of conservatism, which, by contrast, makes them look that much more conservative.  Our ideologies are becoming more extreme, or at least the Internet makes it seem that way. Lines are being drawn, and nowhere is more apparent than in academia.  Education has been, is becoming, and will continue to be a premier ideological battleground as each group seeks to impress its worldview on the youth of this nation.  After all, children are impressionable.  Children are malleable.  Children are sponges whose ability to absorb information and habits put adults to shame. It is impossible to deny the significance of t...

"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ." Here comes a rant.     Firstly, why do we think that it's okay that we can splinter our lives and give one section to God and keep one of them for ourselves?  We must give ourselves entirely over to God.  There is no such thing as a secular/religious dinstinction.  It is about as Biblical as the concept of adolescence!  All of life is religious.  All of what we think, do, and say ought to be regulated by God's commandments and principles.      Secondly, why do we still believe in this farce known as neutrality?  Supposedly God doesn't care about our entertainment, or our employment, or, for Pete's sake, our ed...