Douglas Wilson is the Senior Pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He is happily married to his wife Nancy for 35 years and counting, has three kids and fifteeen grandchildren. He’s a prolific author and speaker and blogs over at Blog & Mablog. He also debated the late Christopher Hitchens in this documentary about […]
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For the weekend crowd, this is a sampling of what we’ve been reading this week. Over at the Intercollegiate Review our friend Anthony Esolen writes this: Why read at all if you are not going to accept the work on its own terms? Criticism becomes nothing more than an imposition of the self upon the
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Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet,
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Anyone who regularly reads contemporary fiction surely has encountered the trend of the time traveling novel – stories that zig-zag between different eras and epochs, challenging our notions of narrative structure, even subverting them at times. Such novels are, seemingly, a dime-a-dozen and too often, for all their narrative creativity, they lack the elements that
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For the weekend crowd, this is a sampling of what we’ve been reading this week. Alissa Wilkinson, chief film critic at Christianity Today reflect on CS Lewis’s Experiment in Criticism and what it means to the CT review staff: The good critic is not necessarily the one with the eagle eye for errors, nor the
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The first time I spent a summer in Wisconsin I was eight, and I rode the upper western half of America in an eighteen-wheeler full of cherries and apples. We’d moved from the Badger state a year earlier, migrating West to the newly booming town of Boise, Idaho, my parents ostensibly chasing opportunity. My father
Yesterday Rod Dreher reflected briefly on Lee Siegel’s lengthy July essay in the Wall Street Journal, “Who Ruined the Humanities?” in a post called “Against High School Literature” and it’s right up the CiRCE-reader alley. He offers this from Siegel: Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my
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For the weekend crowd, this is a sampling of what we’ve been reading this week. From CiRCE friend and longtime conference speaker, Martin Cothran: The Wrong Way to Sell the Church’s Position on Homosexuality “There may be a way to do things differently when it comes to a public dialogue on homosexuality, but abandoning the
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Editor’s note: This post was originally posted in 2012. As an English teacher I am daily faced with the question of how best to bring alive whatever work my classes are reading. Right now, my tenth graders are reading Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories so richly woven and beautifully crafted that one could
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We had one of those quintessentially North Carolinian evenings today, the kind where the air hangs low between the oaks and the magnolias, warm enough to be felt but cool enough to be pleasant. The sky was as blue and clear as any Carolina blue could be and the recent rain we’ve had has led
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Every year we receive scholarship requests from educators who want to attend our conference but who simply cannot afford it. We understand, and it has always been our goal to be able to provide financial aid. Unfortunately, the nature of the conference has prohibited this. We do our best to keep the costs down and
I have become increasingly concerned that college has become an idol for Christian Classical educators. Even as university systems and colleges nationwide enter the twilight of their golden age (many of them are bankrupt and cutting programs, particuarly those related to the humanities) we continue to cater to our culture’s college obssesion; we have ostensibly
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