David Kern

Greetings and welcome to our new internet home! We are hopeful that this new website (created with help from the fine folks at Blackwood Media Group) will enable us to more effectively provide you with information, inspiration, and insight that will, in turn, enable you to direct your students towards the True, The Good, and

Presented by Alex McFarland and Southern Evangelical Seminary, the National Apologetics Conference will take place in Charlotte, NC, October 15-16. Andrew will be presenting… A Lady of Little Faith: Dostoevsky’s Apologetic of Love in The Brothers Karamazov In this workshop Andrew Kern explores Dostoevsky’s response to the rationalism that was invading Russia at the end

The CiRCE Institute is, at this point in time, involved primarily in two programs: the CiRCE Apprenticeship and The Lost Tools of Writing. Think of them as an “Academy” of sorts. We hope they fuel the transfer and discussion of important ideas, that they spawn the re-birth and reconsideration of classical rhetoric within the context

Teaching Attentiveness

Do you love the Lost Tools of Writing? Let us know in the comment section! >> “Oh glorious morning! My 9yo daughter just came to me in confusion. She was being asked to find the perimeter of a square one side of which was 34”. Rather than answer her question, I decided to use the

An Introduction to The Lost Tools of Writing from CiRCE Institute on Vimeo. Every writer must face the blank page, the vast, disheartening, empty space that comes with being at a loss for words. The empty page is a universal problem that every Pulitzer Prize winner knows as well as any high school student, it’s

The theme for the 2011 CiRCE Conference will be: What is Man? A Contemplation of the Divine Image Among the included speakers will be:

Currently, the Peanuts comic by the late Charles Shulz strip stands out as a source of great wisdom and insight in our culture. I say this with partial sarcasm, only partial. One particular strip showed Sally in Sunday School class, her teacher before her. He began, “Today we are going to discuss Church history. What

Part 1 is here and part 2 is here Given the earlier, practical, description of wisdom, the question arises, “How do we get wisdom?” There are four essential acts that we must perform to gain wisdom, and each grows in importance as we climb to the more advanced forms of wisdom. First, we must believe

If there is a distinction between natural things and products of human craft — as I argued some time ago — and this distinction lies in the presence of an internal principle of motion in natural things and an absence of that principle in things produced by craftsmanship, then we may explore the character of

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