2014 Summer Institute Image Gallery
Please enjoy these images from our 2014 Summer Institute at the Chetola Resort in Blowing Rock, North Carolina!
2014 Summer Institute
2014 CiRCE Summer Institute Day 5
The following reflection is by attendee Tony Melton. Together this week, we exercised our vision of the Good. Without the communion of these beautiful souls, I could not have beheld the goodness of the Aeneid. By dancing on the surface of the story and digging deep into its themes and motifs, we unearthed the logos …
2014 CiRCE Summer Institute Day 4
The following reflection is by attendee Joshua Leland “Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for there is not a second one to help him up!” — Ecclesiastes …
2014 CiRCE Summer Institute Day 3
The following reflection is from Mindy Pickens, Summer Institute attendee from Oregon. This morning opened with participants reading aloud, in parts, the storm scene from Book One of the Aeneid, and I was palpably blessed. We fed the discussion with this question: “As you read through The Aeneid, is there an emotion that undergirds your …
2014 CiRCE Summer Institute Day 1
Well the 204 CiRCE Summer Institute is now upon us. Today is day one and it’s been grand so far. I’ll do my best to post an update each day, complete with grainy iPhone photos and all. But the thing that’s stuck out to me early on is how different everyone’s motviations are in coming …