Fewer and fewer issues today transcend red versus blue political lines. Thankfully, the protection and well-being of children still often does. Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order designed to strengthen America’s child welfare system. Analysts and advocates are sifting through the details, but the objectives of the order and the high-level directives it carries […]
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Day 4 of “Four Actions to Teach Our Children in Response to Evil”: ADVENT
It’s easy to imagine we are more virtuous merely because we’ve felt or expressed something – whether conviction or indignation or righteous anger or even guilt. The Bible never does. “Dear children,” urges John, “let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.” Certainly, whenever we see the ugly consequences […]
Day 3 of “Four Actions to Teach Our Children in Response to Evil”: ASCENT
Life can leave us feeling that there is no hope, that nothing can change. The Bible never does. Yes, Scripture is brutally honest about evil. But then, always, it lifts our eyes. It calls us to ascent. Like the ancient Hebrews on their yearly pilgrimage, we are invited time and again to a Godward journey. […]
Day #2 of “Four Actions to Teach Our Children in Response to Evil”: REPENT
Many of the world’s great philosophies deny that evil is present in every human. The Bible never does. “All have sinned,” lands the verdict. Alexander Solzhenitsyn knew this well. He experienced firsthand the brutal repression of Russia’s communist government. That included eight years of forced labor in a Siberian prison. Yet somehow he saw that […]
Day #1 of “Four Actions to Teach Our Children in Response to Evil”: LAMENT
Christians sometimes fail to mourn evil, particularly when we’ve not felt its impact personally. The Bible never does. From start to finish, and especially in the Psalms, the Bible names and mourns all that is bent and broken in our world, from hidden thoughts of the human heart to the affairs of nations. “How long, […]
Four Actions to Teach Our Children in Response to Evil
Our nation is freshly torn by old wounds. We grieve and grapple with the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others … and with what has transpired since … and with all that it represents. My own heart aches as well. At the cruel and degrading death of a man, made in the image […]