Karl Brettig

Community developer, author/editor Building Stronger Communities with Children & Families, Changing Hearts Changing Communities, The River of the Water of Life.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

Discovering the #power to bring #change and be changed.
https://t.co/DeLOvpD4dn

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

In her latest essay for @RestoringWest, @jarobinson1 argues that critical thinking is not taught by teaching students what to think, but by exposing them to the Great Conversation of Western civilization.

The Western canon trains students to analyze arguments, challenge assumptions, weigh evidence, and pursue truth with intellectual seriousness.

Read: https://t.co/FsvMvqjUMn

#RestoringTheWest #Education #CriticalThinking #GreatBooks #WesternCanon #HigherEducation #WesternCivilization

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@brownorangetree @JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW Problem is research is usually many years behind. This study showed a significant association between adverse childhood experiences and ADHD. https://t.co/Tx2jUdmBqv

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@brownorangetree @JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW The 'experts' used to used to say the percentage was about 50/50 environmental and genetic. Neouroscience and early childhood trauma studies have probably tipped that more in the direction of it being more environmental.

[Centre for Independent Studies @CISOZ]

Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 2 with Dr. Mark Durie

Is Islam compatible with liberalism? In this episode of Liberalism in Question, Dr Mark Durie joins the Centre for Independent Studies to examine the fundamental tensions between Islamic theology, sharia, and core liberal principles such as individual freedom, equality, and freedom of religion.

Watch the part 2: https://t.co/zmkvNApUGH

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@brownorangetree @JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW Like many DSM labels ADHD is such a generic term that it can include many different kinds of behaviours, and granted not all are caused by stress in the early years.

[John Anderson AC @JohnAndersonAC]

@EricaKomisarCSW argues that ADHD is not a neurological disorder but a stress response. The result of the brain's stress-regulating system being activated too early. Prolonged separation from mothers, locks children into chronic fight-or-flight: distractibility is the flight response, aggression the fight.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW Not the only contributor but a major one. Sometimes the violence and stress in the infant's home is such that they are better served in alternative care. It's critical we do all that we can to provide support and to protect mothers and babies.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@brownorangetree @JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW The problem is that too much stress wires the developing brain in infants. In the first three years their brains are like sponges absorbing everything they experience and wired accordingly. They still react the same when they are adults, without a lot of therapuetic intervention.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

Kurt Mahlburg: Australian Christian Freedom Index Launch, Parliament Hou... https://t.co/i4q1gZpG91 via @YouTube

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

New Australian Christian Freedom Index warns about erosion of civil liberties. It’s now less safe to share your faith. https://t.co/ijjNp8ptAE

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@JohnAndersonAC @EricaKomisarCSW A challenging conversation but well said. Parents and policymakers need a better understanding of what babies need for healthy early childhood development, and the limitations of daycare. We have far too many traumatised children, often through ignorance. https://t.co/mYSJEXWFYP

[John Anderson AC @JohnAndersonAC]

How Universal Childcare Could Destroy a Generation | @EricaKomisarCSW

Episode out now.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@CISOZ In contrast this comprehensive review of thousands of high-quality studies links religion to better mental health outcomes by a 10-to-1 ratio. https://t.co/yvd4ewcfmj

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

From our country’s beginning, for as long as America has embodied freedom and exceptionalism, the soul of our nation has been rooted in the Christian faith.

Today we gather, as our forefathers did on this day centuries ago, to rededicate our nation to God.

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

What are #Australianvalues and are they being taught in our schools?
https://t.co/3vk9uSu4Fs

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

@holland_tom The argument also applies to the comments of the Pope as well as the Trump Administration as you have well described in your analysis/call to repentance of the church.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

This is very good https://t.co/vJYPH45nDD

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Major problem: "If secular humanism derives not from reason or from science, but from [Christianity]...then how are its values anything more than the shadow of a corpse? What are the foundations of its morality, if not a myth?" (Holland 540) https://t.co/GSXZfS8GUA

[Karl Brettig @KarlBrettig]

Where do our #values come from, why do they change, and where will they lead us?
Foundations, Fluctuations, and Futures of Western Values https://t.co/9tahBBmDhz

[The Spectator @spectator]

Why do people turn to religion and what can the church offer that they can't get elsewhere?

The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie says that churches that simply preach and tell people to be 'nice' sometimes miss the point, and that a church can offer something that is strange, distant and deep.

@_F_B_G_ | @holland_tom