In this edition of our Words of Wisdom feature we talk with Laura Berquist, author, teacher, and CiRCE conference regular. Mrs. Berquist is a home schooling mother of six and is founder and director of Mother of Divine Grace School, an accredited distance learning school serving more than 4000 students and providing ongoing training to […]
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? – Tertullian What has Ingeld to do with Christ? -Alcuin (when catching some monks reading Beowulf) What has Horace to do with the Psalter? Or Virgil with the Gospel? Or Cicero the Apostle? – Jerome The Incarnation calls us to the things of this world. So when we
In the great 21st century debate over the liberal arts, an important distinction needs to be made between two forms of liberal arts studies. On the one hand, there are what I will call the Nihilistic Liberal Arts. On the other, there are the Classical Liberal Arts. The words are chosen with care and they
