Your Blessing, Please?
On St. Benedict, doorkeepers, and 3-year-old intruders
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St. Benedict
The Worth of Work Unfinished
My one-year-old has lately begun to “color.” A supply of pencils, crayons, and paper sits ever-ready at his small table in the corner of the kitchen, and when he first wakes up, or whenever he finds a free moment in his little day, he hastens there to draw, with all seriousness, beautiful inscrutable lines and
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The Disciplinary Art of Making Distinctions
The modern approach to discipline, as to most things, seeks an efficient, fail-proof, and above all, universally-adaptable approach. In my college education courses, I was presented with an array of disciplinary methods, each prescribing precisely sequenced steps (e.g., give a brief verbal warning at the first offense, a reminder of the warning at the second
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The Headmaster as Abbot
On The Rule of St. Benedict & Its Application to Headmasters
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Benedict Option or Constantine Project? Part 2
For part one of this dialogue please click here. This is part two. It’s been edited slightly for clarity and length. According to Rod Dreher an end is nigh. A flood is coming in the form of a new secular Dark Age, “There are people alive today,” he writes in his new book, The Benedict
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The Benedict Option or the Constantine Project?
According to Rod Dreher an end is nigh. A flood is coming in the form of a new secular Dark Age, “There are people alive today,” he writes in his new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, “who may live to see the effective death of Christianity within our
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The Ghetto, the Monastery, and the Classical Christian School
What the “Benedict Option” might look like for the Classical Educator
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