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  • Keeping Athens at Bay: Historical Case Study

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. How should a Christian relate to philosophy? Earlier, I tried to show that Christianity must account for philosophy, Athens. On the other hand, it cannot reduce divine revelation to human intellectual activity. There is nothing new in this idea. It was the path the church followed to discover some of the…

  • We Must Act Part II

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Read Part I here. Athens and Jerusalem Break Apart For centuries, these two cities, Athens and Jerusalem, provided the boundaries for intellectual and cultural growth. They formed one new kingdom. Tensions between the rationalism of Athens and the faith of Jerusalem always existed, but each recognized the contributions made by the…

  • Hostage Becomes a Beacon of Hope in Atlanta

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    Greg Leith, 2005. The story of Atlanta suspected killer, Brian Nichols, age 33, is an interesting commentary on our day. Nichols was a jailed defendant in a rape trial who had overpowered a guard while being escorted to the courtroom. Later he took Ashely Smith, a young woman, hostage for 7 hours. During their sometimes…

  • We Must Act

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Read Part II here. Private Virtues Are Not Enough The basement room was crowded. Children were shoved up against the wall with the few faithful servants who had followed them into exile. The father and mother requested a chair for their son, who was seriously ill. Just a few years ago,…

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Virgil forces the reader to visit the place of the dead. Homer did the same. Dante begins his trip that ends in Paradise with a journey through Hell. Plato begins and ends the Republic with visions of a downward journey, the last to the place of the dead. Why do so…

  • Heaven In Her Eye

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Milton famously describes Eve as having “heaven in her eye.” As a young adult, I loved that line, because it seemed such a perfect description of the beloved when I found her. She would have heaven in her eye. Her gaze would promise paradise in the raptures of two folk in love.…

  • O Death

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. I never liked going to funerals. In my childhood, they were sad affairs and fairly formal. Later they became full of false cheerfulness and endless speeches about the departed. Secular funerals were the worst of all. Such events are full of courage, but not much else. Death is a bad thing…

  • Old like Simeon

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Sometimes, some days, I feel very old. It happens when a student talks about classic films from the nineties or when my freshman can only dimly recall the Clinton administration. It makes me a bit sad. It seems like just a few days ago that I was teaching an experimental on-line…

  • The Three Essentials for Education: Part II

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Read Part I here, and Part III here. Part II — Right Questions Find an educational enthusiast and you will meet someone with more faith than a fighting fundamentalist at a tent meeting. Whatever his system, he believes it contains the answers to all of life’s problems. Just do what he…

  • Musings from a Guest

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    Chris Leigh, 2005. Before beginning, I offer my apologies—I am hardly capable when it comes to blogs. I feel too much as if I am talking to myself, and though I have seen others write about really interesting things, without some response I have had a difficult time entering into the blogosphere. So, please forgive…

  • Playing Piano with Jane

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Today I was working on a book project while my daughter Jane had her piano lesson. She decided to fool Dad by announcing that she was going to play a song for me. What followed was no longer “Lightly Row” or “Twinkle” or any other piece with which beginners delight parents.…

  • The Three Essentials for Education: Part I

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    John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Read Part II here, and Part III here. Part I — Community If I tell you to be a good student, you think of being alone in a library or sitting in a room chewing on the end of a pencil as you work on a hard problem. There is little…