The whole unit is an education unit for offenders up to 27 years old so no older guys to be a mentor to me. The idea behind the unit is cool - setting up young felons with an education and skills for their release. I will be able to accelerate my associates degree while here, hopefully being able to use my first year at community college for credit. But I don't want education in prison because I should be outside getting my education from the same honors program I started with and that the justice system took away from me. Thanks, TDCJ, for stealing my education and giving me a half-rate one instead.
*Learning in Wartime - C.S. Lewis
"If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search never would have begun... Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil turn out to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, and emergencies.
There is no question of compromise between the claims of God and the claims of culture, or politics, or anything else. God's claim is infinite and inexorable. You can refuse it, or you can try to begin to grant it. There is no middle way. Yet, in spite of this, it is clear that Christianity does not exclude any of the ordinary human activities. The solution of this paradox is, of course, well-known to you. "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
A cultural life will exist outside the church whether it exists or not. To be ignorant and simple now - not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground - would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophies need to be answered."
There is no question of compromise between the claims of God and the claims of culture, or politics, or anything else. God's claim is infinite and inexorable. You can refuse it, or you can try to begin to grant it. There is no middle way. Yet, in spite of this, it is clear that Christianity does not exclude any of the ordinary human activities. The solution of this paradox is, of course, well-known to you. "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
A cultural life will exist outside the church whether it exists or not. To be ignorant and simple now - not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground - would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophies need to be answered."
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