Arkansas House OKs bill requiring schools offer Bible course

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“The bill approved by the House on Tuesday … would require a public school to offer the academic study of the Bible if at least 15 students request one. The course would be taught in what the legislation calls a ‘nondevotional manner with no attempt made to indoctrinate students.’” - Fox News

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The virtues of boredom in an anxious age

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“Modernity has brought many blessings, but…. In a culture that so fervently strives after performance and hustle at the cost of all else, could it be that we may simply need more silence and more slowness?” - Acton

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Is It Morally Okay to Keep Updating My Things?

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“I’m not that old, but it seems like a lifetime ago that it was acceptable to keep things until they were broken. Now if my phone is more than a year old or if I haven’t remodeled my kitchen in the past decade, I’m out of date. Is there a moral right or wrong to this consuming of new and updated models of stuff?” - TGC

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The value of learning Biblical languages at a slower pace

Having spent many years studying biblical languages and teaching and tutoring students who have struggled with learning those languages, I have often thought that so many more Christians could learn Biblical Greek and Hebrew well and profitably use them in their lives if they were taught them at a slower pace that allowed for much more mastery at each stage of their learning.

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Physicist Marceio Gleiser Wins Templeton Award

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Agnostic Marcelo Gleiser “famously blasted scientists who do not consider religious beliefs when they explain the universe’s origins. He terms such attitudes as ‘arrogant.’” - WRN

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