WBW Writer's Blog Purpose
If you are like me, there is no shortage of ideas that occur to you about things that need to be written. Why do Ron DeSantis and his friends believe that young people can't handle the truth about our history? Why does he believe they are a bunch of snowflakes? Someone should write about that! Why are so many adults afraid to challenge students with critical thinking skills? Do they really think students shouldn't be challenged? Thinking is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more resistance and challenge it encounters. Without that resistance, our thinking will atrophy. Someone should write about that! How do we challenge the Just War mindset of mainstream Christianity in our country? Before the Iraq war, there were huge demonstrations throughout the country. But the churches were virtually silent. Anecdotal evidence is that fewer than 1% of churches preached or taught anything about the injustice of that war. And now, 20 years later, the silence is deafening. So