Guns and Grace

The Center for the Advancement of Christian EducationThe CACE Roundtable1 Comment

You don’t have to live in Chicago to know about the violence, gun violence and high murder rates concentrated in some of its most economically downtrodden neighborhoods. Sadly, it takes something like the violence in Orlando to move the Chicago stories off the front page of the newspapers. A recent magazine article in the New York Times focused on Chicago’s … Read More

Wineskins, Wolves, and Innovation

The Center for the Advancement of Christian EducationInnovation3 Comments

Matthew 9:17 – “Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved” (English Standard Version). At first blush, the Biblical principle in Matthew 9:17 doesn’t appear to relate to leadership. After all, … Read More

Praying to Be Chosen and Appointed to Love

Steve MooreDevotionalLeave a Comment

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything … Read More

What’s Your Plan?

Dan BeerensThe CACE Roundtable, WebinarsLeave a Comment

If you are an administrator, the latter part of June is an ideal time for reflection and future planning. Immediate day-to-day pressures cease and unless you are in a modified year or year round schedule situation, the pressures to start back up feel down the road. Still fresh in your mind are the things that worked well or didn’t from … Read More

Did You Ever Wonder…

Tim Van SoelenCACE Studies4 Comments

Why students (and their parents) are so grade obsessed? In a previous post: What Happened to the E?, I noted my lack of surprise when students petition for an extra point or two on an assignment or request extra credit opportunities. Some readers responded with notes of similar experience and frustration. One reader asked the question “how do students become so … Read More

Praying to Stay Put and Shine

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“You are the light that shines for the world to see. You are like a city built on a hill that cannot be hidden. People don’t hide a lamp under a bowl. They put it on a lampstand. Then the light shines for everyone in the house.  In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live … Read More