1. What is the “crisis” in education ? Name a scholar who spoke about it as early as 1960s ? The crisis of western education is twofold: The purpose of education is now understood as contributing to the economy. It is no more about teaching the child why leading a life of purpose is meaningful. Education is least interested in teaching children the historical and cultural legacy of the societies they live in. In the west, this in particular means that the children have no understanding of the contributions the Church has made to civilization. Christopher Dawson was a Catholic historian of the 20th century who had extensively thought about this crisis. ...

Today, I found another YouTube gem ! The Importance of Luke Skywalker by “So Uncivilized”. It appears to be a channel devoted to telling the story of Star Wars, in all its uniqueness. I was so impressed. The video explains how the Star Wars story is quite different from many of the other hero movies. ...

The importance of children’s faith formation cannot be overstated. Even the most God-trusting among us, does find ourselves wondering if we are doing enough ? And surely the answer is no. While, there is no need to be anxious; i think it is important that we get our act together nevertheless. Over the month of August, i hope to publish a series of posts relating to this subject. Sincerely, looking forward to your thoughts. ...

Heaven looks like love, love all the way through, love without restriction. Hell looks like the narrow, boring space of my own ego. – Bishop Barron, In Reddit [Celibacy and Priesthood] … For me the best argument is that it is a living eschatological witness, that is to say, a sign of the way we will love in heaven, where “we neither marry nor are given in marriage” – Bishop Barron, In Reddit ...

This YouTube video by Matt (a great catholic communicator) prompted me to write this post Matt recently talked about his experience of being banned by Google’s office from giving a talk on the ill effects of pornography on it’s campus. He was invited to speak in the first place by a group among the employees themselves, but was later stopped from doing so by the company citing concerns raised by it’s employees regarding what he had said earlier. The exact reference is in the video linked above; but suffice to say that he said nothing wrong. ...

The title is an answer to one of humanities Big questions: What will make me happy ? Anyone who pursues happiness (which is everyone) knows for a fact that there is no one thing that will keep a person happy forever. As a matter of fact, in most of our experience the average longevity of a happiness is utmost a few days. Think about, winning a competition, getting a job, making a discovery, etc. Yet, the human spirit refuses to resign to contentment; it longs for something bigger, better. So that beckons the question: What is it that we really seek ? ...

What is love ? Is it something true and real ? God is Love and hence Love has all the qualities of God – it is true, good and beautiful. Being made in the image and likeness of God, we share in God’s Love. Only two persons can love and in that love there is always the lover and the beloved. God loved us first and thereby taught us to love. ...

Yesterday I read an article in the https://www.thereligionteacher.com/ which talked about apathy as the #1 enemy of catechists. I cannot agree more personally.

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