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The Cultural Mandate: Is a Student’s Math Work as Sacred as Her Prayer?

Posted on October 9, 2015October 5, 2018

This article first appeared in the Christian Teachers Journal (Australia) and is reprinted here with permission. Try these questions on for size: is a student’s math work as pleasing to God as her prayer? And do you think that a child’s oil painting is as sacred as his personal testimony of coming to Christ? […]

Educating in the Shadow of Marduk’s Temple: Encouragement for Christian Teachers from Genesis 1 and 2

Posted on April 24, 2013August 16, 2018

Marduk was the chief deity of the Babylonian pantheon. Every aspect of ancient Near Eastern society was arranged around the temples of the gods: humankind existed, so it was thought, to care for the gods. Genesis 1 and 2 is written in the shadow of ancient Near Eastern temple mythology. It dismantles the dominant worldview […]