Praise and the Holy Spirit
May 31, 2021
Yesterday at church, our pastor said- want to be filled with the Holy Spirit? Learn to praise the Lord. This is something I have to
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Deep? or Just Incomprehensible?
May 30, 2021
I have been reading a lot of philosophy in the Harvard Classics series. I used to assume that if I didn’t understand some densely written
How the Trick was Done
May 29, 2021
Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus George Berkeley was a proponent of what came to be known as subjective idealism, a theory that denied
Growing Admiration for Locke
May 27, 2021
OK, I’m going to admit I’ve been pretty impressed with John Locke so far in his treatise On Education. Most philosophers I’ve read take a
Interaction with Kids
May 26, 2021
John Locke, in his essay On Education, talks about the English custom (at around 1700) of doting on children when young, and then becoming progressively
Courage and Anxiety
May 26, 2021
I have tried over the past two years to keep in touch with my two sons ever couple of weeks. For my youngest son, who
Education and TV
May 25, 2021
The Desire to Learn I was thinking the other day about all the reading I’m doing. The Harvard Classics series includes a lot more philosophical,
John Lock on Education
May 24, 2021
Reading John Locke’s Some Thoughts on Education. “Some thoughts” goes for nearly 200 pages, with 216 sections, so apparently… don’t get this guy started, amirite?
Martin Luther
May 22, 2021
I had read about Martin Luther, primarily in Will Durant’s Story of Civilization, Part 6- The Reformation. But I had never actually read any of
Speaking of Fools Rushing in…
May 21, 2021
So I was listening to a discussion between Benjamin Boyce and Jonathan Church on Youtube the other day. It was called Robin DiAngelo: False Prophet
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.