August 16, 2026 by Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird in Light Magazine

As told in the delightful movie Mrs. Brown, Queen Victoria had a great love for the Scottish Balmoral Castle. The Queen actually preferred Scotland to England. As a result, everything Scottish suddenly became fashionable. Tartans, reels, bagpipes and sporrans were considered cultured and refined where before they had been hidden away when friends from England arrived.

Queen Victoria also had a preference for Scottish doctors, in particular Sir James Simpson of Edinburgh. Her appointment of James Simpson in 1847 as one of her Majesty’s Physicians was symptomatic of Victoria’s innovative leadership style. He was Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh. Despite the prejudice many have today to all things ‘Victorian’, Queen Victoria helped open the doors to modern science and medicine. Even as a child, she led the way as the first member of the Royal Family to be vaccinated for smallpox. Later as Victoria was to give birth in 1853 to her eighth child, Prince Leopold, she turned to Sir James Simpson, the father of modern anesthetics, for help.

The Colson Center has a downloadable that approaches "English Literature through the lenses of Hope, Truth, Identity, and Calling" which "means teaching more than the plot elements, but instead forming students in how they read, interpret, and respond to the text."

Connecting the study of God’s world with God’s Word, the Bible, doesn’t happen automatically even with the best intentions. However, Biblical integration or faith in learning isn’t impossible. The Visual Valet can help you make connections in a way that transforms you and those you teach. Teaching Christianly is not easy, but this visual organizer will help you remember critical principles and wisely apply new practices. It is written from a classroom teacher’s perspective, but this book will be helpful for informal to formal teachers, parents to pastors, who are interested in relating all of life and learning to God and His Word.

The first edition has been available in PDF format for almost 20 years and as a Kindle book more recently. However, the second edition renews the illustrations and cover with some rearranging of the content to make it more accessible. This is the first time that you can order a copy of the book in paperback.

Harold Klassen speaks to a group of teachers in Asia about what the Bible reveals about God's view of His world and how it shapes how we view education when we are thinking about it.

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S. T. in OnPractice, May 10, 2023

It is such a pleasure to be able to share my thoughts with you all as you transform lives around the world. While the focus of this article is science, it can easily relate to every subject. God created this world and set us as caretakers.[1] Science is our process to learn more about the world that God made, which He considered good. Analyzing God’s creations can also be inspiring to our students. In science, students must concretely see the purposeful design of the world—both in the amazing way things work and through the difficulty of trying to recreate even simple parallel systems.