I liked the autumn essay you posted until I got to the words "the lumbering yellow school bus" where students are whisked off to be "dehumanized, demythologized " and groomed "to live a meaningless life." I work in a Title 1 (high poverty) school -- you know, like Uvalde. Our students are loved, known by name and lifted up. For many, it is their safe place. Essays like these do a great disservice to the many, many Christians who work in public schools because of a call to serve all God's children. To paint such a dismal picture of the place I work is, to me, against the "magnanimous spirit" this website says it wants to espouse.
Sure, I can see your point 100%. I wonder if we need to know more of the author's perspective and why he wrote this part so blatantly. He wrote that as though he assumed his readers already knew his perspective.
On that note, THANK YOU, Lori, for all you do — your job is so essential. 💛
I liked the autumn essay you posted until I got to the words "the lumbering yellow school bus" where students are whisked off to be "dehumanized, demythologized " and groomed "to live a meaningless life." I work in a Title 1 (high poverty) school -- you know, like Uvalde. Our students are loved, known by name and lifted up. For many, it is their safe place. Essays like these do a great disservice to the many, many Christians who work in public schools because of a call to serve all God's children. To paint such a dismal picture of the place I work is, to me, against the "magnanimous spirit" this website says it wants to espouse.
Sure, I can see your point 100%. I wonder if we need to know more of the author's perspective and why he wrote this part so blatantly. He wrote that as though he assumed his readers already knew his perspective.
On that note, THANK YOU, Lori, for all you do — your job is so essential. 💛
Thank you Tsh for sending so many good things my way. I loved the video of the monastery being built to last 1,000 years.
Same! Truly beautiful.