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  • The ‘Look It Up’ Fallacy

    The ‘Look It Up’ Fallacy0

    Modern educators are no longer teaching much in the way of content knowledge. Their excuse why is that we no longer need to because we now have technology. We have Google, and so students can just look things up. In his recent book, Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. calls this the “Look it

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  • The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand

    The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand0

    The internet is buzzing about the baby-boom underway in Bangkok—a plastic baby boom. That’s right, grown women are carrying around little dolls called luk thep (“little angels”). They apparently take them everywhere and treat them like an actual child complete with manicures at salons and meals at restaurants. Airlines have even set up guidelines to

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  • The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches

    The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches0

    Late last week, I ran across an intriguing article on the state of the Church of England in The Telegraph. According to the paper: “Churches with small and declining congregations may no longer have to hold weekly Sunday services as the Church of England considers dropping the legal requirement. A Church of England task group

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  • The ‘Useless’ Things Make Us More Fully Human

    The ‘Useless’ Things Make Us More Fully Human24

    Every morning I’m up before dawn, enjoying some coffee on my front porch, and thanking my Maker for another day – I’ve reached the age where that gratitude is heartfelt. Two or three times a day, I play a couple of games of solitaire. Often, I’ll read a few pages from some book I know

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  • The ‘Story’ That Replaced Christianity Is Collapsing

    The ‘Story’ That Replaced Christianity Is Collapsing1

    In graduate school, one of the most helpful concepts I learned about was narrative theology. The basic premise behind it is that theologies are rooted in a narrative, or story, that forms the lens through which a religion’s adherents interpret the world. Christianity itself is a story, one that captured the West’s attention for almost

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  • The ‘Real’ St. Valentine Was No Patron of Love

    The ‘Real’ St. Valentine Was No Patron of Love0

    On Feb. 14, sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and more lavish gifts in the name of St. Valentine. But as a historian of Christianity, I can tell you that at the root of our modern holiday is a beautiful fiction. St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love. Valentine’s Day,

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