What is prayer? Prayer is a means to connect with other people and with our creator. Students in public schools should never be forced to pray, but they should be encouraged to pray. Earnest prayer, especially between prayerful adults and youth,
I grew up in a small town in upstate New York. Raised, literally, by a community of parents, neighbors, coaches, teachers, and the occasional police officer. The foundational values I learned shaped how I think about our society and country
In many ways, our public schools are failing our kids. That may seem too harsh, but I don’t think it is an unfair statement, given our inability to solve the problems of school violence, teen suicide, drug use, and underachievement.
In the climactic scene in the movie “Cool Hand Luke,” Luke defiantly exclaims, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” How true that sentiment is today. Let’s start with a few questions. If you wrote an email or sent a