Jessica Lahey's new book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, looks superb. It's a theme I tried to hit hard in my preparing teens for college book. An excerpt of Lahey's book recently appeared in the pages of The Atlantic. Here's an excerpt of the excerpt: The truth—for this parent and so many others—is this: Her child has sacrificed her natural curiosity and love of learning at the altar of achievement, and it’s our fault. Marianna’s parents, her teachers, society at large—we are all implicated in this crime against learning. From her … [Read more...] about When Success Leads to Failure
Archives for August 2015
Human Capital – Episode 2: Inside the Planned Parenthood Supply Site
The 6th Planned Parenthood video has been posted. This one features a former StemExpress employee testifying that high-pressure tactics are used to encourage women to consent to donate their fetuses for research and that fetus parts are sometimes taken even without consent. The Press Release from The Center for Medical Progress: … [Read more...] about Human Capital – Episode 2: Inside the Planned Parenthood Supply Site
Debunking the “Pro-Life” Planned Parenthood Defense
Have you heard the "pro-life" argument for Planned Parenthood? It's being promoted everywhere by center-left journalists from Dana Milbank, to Ruth Marcus, to Damon Linker, to Will Saletan. Writing for the New York Times, Ross Douthat sums up this view: "..even though Planned Parenthood performs hundreds of thousands of abortions each year (while lobbying constantly against any restriction on the practice), to oppose channeling public dollars to its family planning operations is to be objectively pro-abortion, because these operations prevent many more abortions still." Douthat then debunks … [Read more...] about Debunking the “Pro-Life” Planned Parenthood Defense
Onward by Russell Moore
I enjoyed reading an advanced copy of Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel by Russell Moore. The book begins with a few chapters summarizing the increasing secularization in the United States (and even in the Bible belt itself), as evangelicals have shifted "from moral majority to prophetic minority." Moore then explains how the already, not-yet nature of the kingdom of God means that our priority, as individual Christians and as churches, should be the reconciliation of sinners to God not the subjugation of those who (sometimes vehemently) disagree with us. The next chapter … [Read more...] about Onward by Russell Moore