Christ-follower, Husband, Dad, Professor, Author (Beating the College Debt Trap, Thriving at College, Preparing Your Teens for College). Students & higher ed.
Riverside, CA
Joined February 2009
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
-Attributed to Albert Einstein
The school districts seek to shut parents out of the process. Because with parental involvement comes accountability. Many great families have already checked out and homeschool instead. Their numbers are rising day by day.
The Chicago Cubs were resting their offense tonight. It's going to be such a LONG offseason campaign! It's important to get some rest when you can.
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Ask the Lord to continually renew your mind so that you’re bringing a distinctly God-centered orientation to your responsibilities and circumstances. —Alex @Chediak
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Seriously? Also, the percentage of young men who are unmarried is at a record high levels.
Some men are skipping showers before dates to embrace a new trend called “pheromone-maxxing," hoping their natural scent will make them more attractive.
But experts say the science behind the dating strategy is far from settled:
"There is no evidence of a consistent and strong behavioral response to any human-produced chemical cue. To date, scientists have collected evidence for possible pheromone effects but have not definitively identified a single human pheromone," Scientific American explained.
The way out is to renew the old idea of college as a place of both intellectual and moral formation, growth in skill, and development of virtue. Head and heart. Neither at the exclusion of the other. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Fascinating article about correspondence between Frederick Douglass and Charles Spurgeon. wng.org/opinions/the-lion-of…
Tremendous episode of @RYMRadio with @BenSasse, Dr. Godfrey, and Dr. Ferguson (@SFerguson_ - who, remarkably, is on X! :) youtube.com/watch?v=3w4rj67x… @Ligonier @ChrisLarson
Amen! Congrats Rick and Jon!
Congratulations to @RickMelson, who will serve as the next president of @Moody_Bible, and to @bcs_mn alumnus @jonwoodyard, who will be the @SBUniv interim president. Very happy for these friends and these institutions!
moodybible.org/news/2026/11t…
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Coach K shares a universal truth about failure, resilience, and growth.
"When you're getting your butt kicked, it's called changing a limit."
"So many parents today don't allow their kids to change limits...They're worried about them failing instead of learning. You learn through the experience of failure and success."
Growth requires discomfort. You have to be willing to look bad before you get better.
The problem isn't failure - it's protecting people from it.
"Failure was never a destination."
You can't grow without accepting that there will be challenges and adversity.
(🎥Duke Fuqua School of Business )
Alex Chediak retweeted
One of the defining stories of our civilization today is the decline of romantic love.
It's often treated as a sentimental issue. I don't think it is. I think it's an existential one.
It's easy to blame dating apps, social media, or changing cultural norms. But those may be symptoms rather than the underlying cause. The deeper question is this: What has changed in the way we understand love, commitment, and the purpose of sharing a life with another person?
That's a conversation worth having more often.
We are losing our sanity.
"New research. . . has found that 1 in 7 young adults in committed relationships — “seriously dating, engaged, or married” — regularly interact with romantic artificial intelligence companions." @freyaindiaa @wapo @FamStudies @BYUWheatley
"From 2010 to 2024, happiness among married young adults fell from 94% to 90%, compared to a decline from 82% to 68% among unmarried young adults" ifstudies.org/in-the-news/gr… Hey @BradWilcoxIFS - If click on "continues", it says article is blocked. Tried on 2 browsers. Same error.
"A coalition led by UC Berkeley math professors argues that abandoning the admissions test requirement has created “preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics” while also trying to teach college-level math." sfchronicle.com/california/a…
While my MAGA friends gloat over Trump's massive influence in the primaries (congrats), remember that this is true:
It is depressing that Texas voters have to choose between a grifting adulterer dirtbag and an extreme far left lunatic with heretical and unacceptable cultural, theological, and political positions. Neither are acceptable candidates. Neither are conservative. Neither are moderate. Neither are fit for office. Any attempt to criticize one by defending the other is intellectually and morally deficient. BOTH candidates are unworthy of one’s support. It is not just that I CAN hold both positions at once (Paxton is personally unfit; Talarico is positionally unfit) - it is that I MUST hold both positions at once.