Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, is in Christian tradition the day of Holy Week on which Jesus’ Last Supper with the disciples is remembered. It immediately precedes Good Friday, which marks his crucifixion and death; followed by Holy Saturday, and...
Wednesday of Holy Week is, for many Christians, known as Spy Wednesday. It commemorates the betrayal of Jesus by his disciple Judas. Matthew 26 records: “14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said,...
Today Christians around the world celebrate Holy Tuesday in the lead up to Easter. It is often also referred to as Fig Tuesday, referring to the gospel accounts of when Jesus cursed the fig tree. Mark’s narrative reads: 12 On the...
For Christians around the world, this week marks perhaps the most important week of the year: Holy Week. Beginning yesterday, with Palm Sunday and continuing through Holy Saturday, the days of Holy Week follow the story of Jesus’ entry into...
We memorize to fill our travel bag; we memorize, because it preserves the past; and we memorize, because it lets us walk a mile in someone else’s words. But ultimately, we memorize, because it changes us. And that is why...
Have you ever heard the idiom, “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes”? It means that we should first imagine what it is like to be someone else, to experience life from their perspective, before we pass judgment. It is...
You’ve probably heard people talk about the importance of teaching “critical thinking” in schools. They’re not entirely wrong. But critical thinking is often presented as an advance or improvement over “rote memorization”—and its why so few of your peers in...
The great physicist, Albert Einstein, is credited with having said: “Never memorize something that you can look up.” Today, with all manner of information at our fingertips, it is unclear whether there is anything worth memorizing at all—everything, it seems,...
Our final thought experiment this week is no thought experiment at all – it is the true story of Rahab, from the Book of Joshua. After God had promised the Israelites the land of Jericho, Joshua sent spies to check it out:...
Today’s thought experiment comes from Marcus Tullius Cicero, who considers in his book On Duties, circumstances “when utility seems to conflict with honorableness.” From our very own Dr. Newton’s translation, Cicero writes: “[I]f a good man sets out from Alexandria to...
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