Christian School Commenthttp://www.sanjac.orgFri, 10 Sep 2010 21:02:40 GMTThe Unseen Hand of Godhttp://www.sanjac.org/the-unseen-hand-of-godWed, 24 Feb 2010 16:16:17 GMTSJCAMy wife, Bonnie, our four children, and I had just moved into a new home in Elkhart, Indiana. My “to do” list was long, and I was busy serving the Lord as a Christian school superintendent. On my list of things to do was to nail shut the spring-loaded trapdoor to a laundry chute. The trapdoor was set in the floor of the bathroom near our children’s bedrooms.

One morning, Bonnie was busy in that bathroom helping our older children get ready for school. Aubrey, our youngest daughter, was crawling on the bathroom floor. Suddenly my wife heard the sound of the trapdoor snapping shut. Aubrey was gone…and in an instant Bonnie realized what had happened. Aubrey had fallen headfirst down the laundry chute to the concrete-floored basement below. Fearing the worst, Bonnie raced down the stairs…to continue reading the rest of this story, click here to open a new browser window.

]]>http://www.sanjac.org/the-unseen-hand-of-godExcellence and the Universityhttp://www.sanjac.org/excellence-and-the-universityWed, 03 Feb 2010 19:35:35 GMTSJCAA Colorado Springs Gazette.com article recently caught my attention. It was about Jane Hilberry, an English professor at Colorado College, who had been invited to speak to middle school children in the Springs. When leaders at the school discovered Hilberry’s Body Painting book, they rescinded her invitation. According to the article, the book “features nudity on its cover and verse about … same-sex attraction” (Rabey 2009). A University of Northern Colorado website states, “Crazy Jane … makes appearances throughout Hilberry’s work, seducing a bear, sleeping in a priest’s bed, and generally transgressing social norms.

Ultimately, the poet celebrates unconventional choices—to love both men and women, not to have children, and to abandon the attempt to find God in church” (Colorado Poets Center). Hilberry responded to the rescindment of her invitation by saying that she feels “deeply, deeply, deeply that art has in some ways saved [her] life...click here, to open the entire article, in Adobe Reader format.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]>http://www.sanjac.org/excellence-and-the-universityJanuary 2009 issuehttp://www.sanjac.org/christian-comment-january-2009Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:00:23 GMTKen Smitherman, President of ACSIAlthough the second half of this school year has only begun, in the coming days and weeks you will be tasked with considering Christian school reenrollment for the 2009/2010 school year. Economic times that have put incredible stress on countless families make this decision even more challenging.

There is not and will not be a magical solution to the varying array of financial issues facing many families. New challenges will exert pressure on your priorities and values. As you consider the critical matter of Christian schooling in your family, I offer some points for your consideration:

Truth in an upside-down world. I could not begin to rehearse every aspect of what God considers important to us, but the interesting thing is that what He considers important is often contrary to what the world considers important...read more.

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