One of the giant incongruities of being a credobaptist in a Presbyterian church is all this talk of covenant children. I’m still not entirely sure what they mean, but we believe our children are born depraved and lost. Which is depressing. But also inspiring. Because the Bible speaks to Christian parents, credo or paedobaptist, in two large subheadings: responsibilities of Christian parents,…
Last week marked the end of the girls’ adventure in their current math books, which means by my lights, they’re onto the new grade. I use math as our metric because 1) it’s the subject we are most behind in; 2) it’s very sequential, you can’t really skip around or ahead if you’re not getting it; and 3) whether it’s…
One thing I have been really searching for in my reading for the past year or so is to grasp the surrounding context of the biblical events. I’ve been spending a good bit of time with my nose in the biblical atlas and the encyclopedia, trying to fill in the gaps. One of the things I’ve noticed is there was…