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Currently much controversy surrounds Islam and its compatibility, or lack thereof, with the Western world. To some, Islam is a religion of peace whose adherents desire nothing more than the way of life enjoyed by others in Western nations. To others, Islam has a strong undercurrent of violence and fundamentally conflicts with Western values of
READ MOREThere’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about
READ MOREA large part of the controversy between Islam and the West boils down to scriptural hermeneutics. “Scriptural hermeneutics” refers to the lens that a person, group, or religion uses to interpret their respective scriptures. Most Christians, for instance, hold to some sort of theory of “divine inspiration” in regard to how the Bible was
READ MOREIn my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be
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