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True Education Liberates
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"Oh, you’re a liberal-arts major. What are you going to do, teach?" Liberal-arts degree holders are familiar with contemporary assumptions about the practical value of such an education. But understood in the traditional sense, the liberal arts have very little to do with matching skills to job. Instead they are about fostering the individual’s ability to reason and participate in society. The aim of a genuinely liberal education is freedom.
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By Rollin A. Lasseter
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How We Got Where We Are
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A brief history of Western education
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Inaccuracy Is Lying
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| Grade inflation isn’t just about self-esteem—it’s a moral problem.
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The Connection between Education and Prayer
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Learned discipline enables us to be still.
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Today: Not Education but Social Engineering
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| Contemporary theories of learning are more about molding opinions and personalities than about developing minds.
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The Sin of Sloth
What the Couch Potato and the Workaholic Have in Common
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| The devil finds things for idle hands to do. We’ve all heard that cautionary saying in one form or another. But as it turns out, the Deadly Sin of sloth doesn’t apply merely to hammock-reclining loafers: The achievement-obsessed careerist is just as culpable. We are guilty of sloth whenever we fail to give God the time, attention, and resources he deserves.
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By Leon Suprenant
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Further Reading
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| Spiritual resources for time management and purposeful leisure |
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Former Anglican Clergymen Bolster British Catholicism
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| In 1992 the Church of England voted to allow the ordination of women. The resultant furor prompted many to cross the Tiber to Catholicism. Among these were a number of Anglican priests (and a few bishops) who were led to pastor new flocks, as well as others who turned their influence to the laity. What do their experiences of the English Church in subsequent years tell us about the future of Christianity in Britain? |
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By Joanna Bogle
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Who Worships in the UK?
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| A recent survey of churchgoing in the United Kingdom
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Loaves and Fishes
Fashionable Priests and the "Miracle of Sharing"
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| We know the story: Jesus transformed a handful of bread and fish into enough food for a multitude . . . didn’t he? A contemporary spin on a miracle described in all four Gospels offers a squishier version: Jesus taught the people—who brought their own food—to share with others. But the story of God’s miraculous intervention in the natural world has endured for 2,000 years. Here’s why.
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By Steve Ray
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Read the Different Accounts of the Miracle
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| The six Gospel accounts of Jesus’ multiplication of the loaves and fishes
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What Is a Miracle?
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| The Catholic Encyclopedia’s definition
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What Did the Fathers of the Church Teach?
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| The early Church Fathers had much to say about the multiplication of the loaves.
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