June 2016 Monthly Archive

Regarding a sexual abuse case in Texas

The Dallas Morning News

This story has remarkable similarities to the Jamin Wight sexual abuse case. The preliminary facts, as reported by the news, are as follows: A 24-year-old teacher admitted that she had regular sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old student. She turned herself . . . Continue reading

Friday, June 3, 2016 |

“for anyone familiar with . . . the footnotes in our books”

Allow me to clear my throat and modestly nod at the Omnibus curriculum, which takes students through six massive volumes of hundreds of ancient, medieval and modern books and plays — Scripture, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch, Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Thucy . . . oh, never mind. . . . In short, for anyone familiar with the topics at ACCS conferences, the footnotes in our books, and the curricula in our schools, Michael appears to be a perpilocutionist.
Douglas Wilson

Wrestling With Wilson

“cowardice”

Douglas Wilson

“In Titus 1, and 1 Timothy 3, God’s requirements for leadership are strict — and clear. According to those requirements, John Wesley was not qualified to be a leader of God’s people; he was not ‘blameless’ in the text’s sense. He stole the words of another and did not acknowledge that he had done so.” — Douglas Wilson Continue reading

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 |