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Lorraine |
Spare the rod and spoil the child goes the old adage, but in today's post we change it to:
Spare the rod and SAVE the child.
The front page of The New York
Times carries a story about a simple preacher from Tennessee, Michael Pearl, who with his wife, Debi, has sold more than 670,000 copies of his self-published book,
To Train Up a Child. Train is another word for corporal punishment. Christian websites and magazines are all atwitter over
To Train Up a Child. They love it, and so do, apparently, parents who home school their children.
Trouble is, some kids in families who have
To Train Up a Child are dying because the use of the rod (and switch, and a quarter-inch plumbing line that can be rolled up and carried in one's pocket for immediate use). And you know what? The ones reported on the
Times piece are all: Adopted. Many from Africa.