How do we respond when things go wrong? When disaster strikes, when we suffer, when the hard times come? There are three options: We can collapse under the stress, in which case we are “fragile.” Maybe we are strong enough to endure and survive the catastrophe more or less unscathed, in which case we are “robust.” But maybe some of us are the sort of people (or objects, ideas, or institutions) who not only endure suffering but are actually made... Read more
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This post is part of a series walking through the third volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace The first responsibility of upbringing belongs to the parents. Blood ties convey this obligation. Parents, in this sense, have duties, not rights. (The latter belongs to God alone.) Any rights parents have derive only from their duties. Duty always trumps authority and right alike. Once upon a time, parents did all the work of child-rearing, including gathering food. Now schools, states, church, etc, have divided the... Read more
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