In the early twentieth century, the most progressive minds in the American establishment embraced eugenics—the pseudoscience of improving the race through controlled breeding. Leading churchmen endorsed the idea, saying it would improve society through applied science. It fell to Catholics and Protestant fundamentalists to object to eugenics on

Neuroscience has demonstrated that remembering a thing depends on sustaining attention to it. Engaging in social media during worship all but guarantees that anything the pastor says will be ephemeral. Plus, encouraging social media use during worship works against the contemplative state of mind one needs to bring into church.

Yes, you will be thought of as a weirdo and a control freak. So what? These are your children.

is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave.

The man whose desires are under the control of his reason

The source of all disorder is loving finite things more than the infinite God. Even loving good things, like family and country, can be a source of damnation if one loves them more than one loves God and seeks fulfillment in those things rather than in the Creator of those things.

Techne refers to knowledge that helps you do things, while episteme refers to knowledge of how things are, so that you will know what to do.

that using the Web makes it infinitely easier to find information but much harder to devote the kind of sustained focus it takes to know things.

At the neurological level, the Internet’s constant distractions alter the physiological structure of our brain.