Further to our day out together, my wife and I drove over to the west side of Fort Worth to visit the Texas Civil War Museum. (That would be the American Civil War of 1861-1865. They've got some really neat stuff there, including a uniform worn by General J.E.B. Stuart, General Robert E. Lee's cavalry commander, as well as the frock coat worn by General U.S. Grant when accepting Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. But I digress.)
Next door to the TCWM, we saw the following:
Why is it that so many, especially Christian, schools want to use a coat of arms – either real or, more often, made up – for their logo? Does it have something to do with the “shield of faith” (Eph. 6:16) where Paul is talking about putting on “the full armor of God” and specifically references “the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish the fiery darts of the evil one”? (Though how a shield would extinguish flaming arrows is something that I am uncertain about.) Or is there some other rationale for it?
I don’t have an answer to that question, but I do know that many Christian schools and academies use a coat of arms or shield-shape for their logo.
In any case, it's an interesting heraldic logo (yes, it has its faults: the border and chief are color on color; the stars on the border and across the chief are too small for good identification; the word "Crown" - with a crown inside the O - ought to be unnecessary, for example), and proof once again of something I say so often: "You can find heraldry everywhere!" Even, or maybe even especially, when you're not really looking for it.
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