If You Don’t Like It, Ditch It?
Some Unusual Advice about Reading
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Growing Demand for Catholic Classical Schools
The Cardinal Newman Society recently reported an encouraging trend among Catholic schools: “Nationwide, classical schools, both diocesan and independent, are springing up and eliciting interest from other schools and groups. Efforts to revitalize classical Catholic education have garnered interest from parents, teachers, and many others who want to copy the model, according to the National
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Words of Wisdom: Cheryl Swope on Teaching Special Needs Students Classically
Author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, Cheryl Swope is an advocate of classical Christian education for special-needs and struggling students. The love of history, music, literature, and Latin instilled in her own children has created in Cheryl the desire to share the message that classical education offers benefits to any child.
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Recovering My Love of Teaching (Or “3 Ways to Destroy Teachers”)
A cautionary tale for the beginning of school
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Captured by Writers
Eugene Peterson, long-time evangelical pastor, author, and professor, recently released his memoir The Pastor. Early in the work, he describes his childhood in Montana, with stories of bullies, eccentric relatives, and working in his father’s butcher shop. Among his formative memories, Peterson includes his fondness for The Carnegie, the town library. The Carnegie was the
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Homer Is Difficult
Lawrence of Arabia, writing as T.E. Shaw, on his difficulties in translating Homer
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The 5 Discourses of Jesus
How Jesus retells and fulfills the whole Old Testament in 5 sermons
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Quotables: Alexander Schmemman’s “For the Life of the World”
Alexander Schmemman (1921-1983), ordained to the priesthood in 1946, gradually becoming one of most influential Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. He served as a teacher and dean at St. Vladimir’s Seminary until his death, was an official Orthodox observer of the Second Vatican Council, and helped to establish the Orthodox Church in America in
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5 “Must Ask” Questions for Teaching Dante’s Inferno
Earlier this year, I wrote a five-part series on Dante’s Inferno entitled “Blogging through Hell”, a collection that grew out of teaching the great work this spring. Along with those articles, which served as outlets for some thoughts that incessantly swirled around my head while teaching, I want to provide a bit of practical help
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Parents & Smartphones
Just a few weeks ago, an NPR report revealed the findings of several recent studies on parental smartphone dependence and the effect it has upon their children. The results are not surprising, filled with things we already know and, therefore, need to hear again and again. In research for her book, Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children
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Be Afraid to Know Your Neighbors
Why real community is painful and sometimes tragic but always a beautiful thing
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A Tour of Wes Callihan’s Personal Library
We’re getting pretty excited about this summer’s conference! Here’s a recent video from one of our speakers, Wes Callihan.
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