A Guest Post by Mike Wilhelm, Ph.D. Dr. Wilhelm is the senior chaplain at Cal Farley’s: a worldwide leader in the field of residential childcare for boys and girls, providing services at no cost to families. Mike is the director of the Iona Project and an alumnus of Faulkner University’s Great Books Honors College. I had a young friend some years ago. I’ll call her Ellie. Ellie came to our residential childcare community …
Category: Theology
[ This post originally appeared on my classical teacher site, Locus Classicus. ] [ Concluded from Part 1 ] For myself, I desire to take the classical Christian tradition with the utmost seriousness, meaning that I do not simply reject something found in it because it is not immediately apparent to me how that thing is sensible and might be true. On the other hand, our tradition itself permits us to imagine that, if we …
[ This post originally appeared on my classical teacher site, Locus Classicus. ] I want to approach this seemingly counter-productive question (at least for those of us involved in CCE, Classical Christian Education), by discussing two pretty provocative classical statements that recently came to my attention regarding politics and theology. These two statements, one from the 4th century B.C. and the other from the 16th century A.D. stake out the position that there is a …
In the midst of the global COVID-19 crisis, there are many features of our modern life that we take for granted. Toilet paper, meat, hand sanitizer … and hospitals. Although adequate medical care is still tragically absent in many countries throughout the world, a huge percentage of the world’s population can simply go to a hospital when they need medical attention. This fact is worth pausing over. For much of human history, it was not …
This week, I experienced a bit of providence in my daily Bible reading. The Old Testament reading was from 1 Kings 12, where the new (and young) King Rehoboam asks for opinions about how he should establish his authority. Coming after his father, King Solomon, Rehoboam had big shoes to fill! The older councilors gave this advice: “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to …