A good friend of mine and I were talking the other day and he began telling me about his daughter’s struggle with the tension of feeling compelled, on the one hand, to become a missionary, while feeling compelled on the other hand to become an activist. I was struck by my friend’s very economic and… Read more »
Most people think they are good people, who believe good things for good reasons. Even bad people might believe this most sincerely. Because people disagree on “the good”, it means that – logically – they can’t all be right. It can’t be the case that murder is both acceptable and unacceptable, just like it cannot… Read more »
I’m a people person and averse to confrontation…until something happens that doesn’t make sense to me. I begin to ask questions and evaluate explanations. When explanations don’t make sense, I default to the uncommon position of common sense: think for yourself, make a conclusion, act accordingly. So I tend to go along when it makes… Read more »
Western culture operates according scientism, which is to say we rely on “science” to answer any and all questions. This is short sighted to say the least. Science is unable to answer many questions, most notably the question, “What is science?” The facts discovered by science are never problematic. It is the philosophical conclusions and… Read more »
Teaching the Kids to Listen Well By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Here’s a funny story: A student asked to make up a quiz he missed due to his absence . He said he lost his keys. I referred him to the syllabus, which says no matter what the reason for the absence , quizzes aren’t… Read more »
A Classroom in Lost Angeles By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. From Facebook , Monday March 14, 2014 at 5:41 pm PST “Feel free to twit this lecture out on your Tweeter accounts,” I said, making a combination of bird-chirp noises with gastro-intestinal/sheep bleating sounds. [Which if i may say so myself, I do perfectly after… Read more »
I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life. I was raised by entrepreneurial parents and grand parents. I started my first business, with the help of my parents of course, at the budding age of five, selling cookies on the weekends and candy canes at Christmas to the small businesses in the business complex where my… Read more »
A reflection on morning prayer. When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds… Read more »
It’s 2022. Mid-term elections are this year. Most people feel involved by watching televised debates or if one is really making an effort, perhaps, searching and watching YouTube videos or watching mainstream news channels or Googling information or reading one’s favorite news feeds. Much of our effort is passive observation or just too little, too… Read more »
A Closer Look at “The Way Forward”By Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Did conservatives end slavery ? It depends on what you mean by “conservative.” Did Republicans end slavery ? Yes. I’m a Republican. When I say I’m a Republican, one might assume I mean “conservative.” But what does it mean to be a conservative… Read more »