Flipping the Script
As I watched, I thought, Why don’t we—those of us considered to have “all” abilities—greet each other this way, with a natural jubilance, excitement, and love for life and each other?
Ten Tips for Reading More This Summer
I want to encourage you to hit pause before you begin making all those lists and aiming for all the prizes.
Forty Years Later: Revisiting Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
Television’s way of knowing is the operating system of modern life: it goes on in the background, without awareness, and we simply take this as a given.
Virtue and the Really Real
Modern Christians often see heaven simply as a destination after death—the place of angels and God. But in a classical context, heaven is where ideals are real.
Finishing the Year with Fortitude
Classical Christian education gives children the opportunity to develop the virtue of fortitude among people who love and support them so they are prepared to engage, or at least persevere, in a world that often has an averse and sometimes violent reaction to the gospel message.
Singing a Sweeter Song
The Sirens’ song must be resisted, but how? There are two ways, according to Homer.
What if I Don’t Like Bach?
How do you get someone to love Johann Sebastian Bach when they would rather listen to Taylor Swift?
How Do You Teach Beauty?
You’ve probably heard the phrase “truth, goodness, and beauty” repeated more than once at your child’s school. These words roll off the tongue as though they’re similar to each other, but one of the three is so much harder to teach.
This Year in History: 1825
When we think of great artists from the past, we usually don’t associate them with political movements. But this misses something key about politics: someone always has to be telling the story. And prior to the invention of a camera, you needed an artist for that.
Why didn’t 30 minutes of Homer do anything for my child?
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FOMO, FOBO, or Frodo?
“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of...
The Discipleship of Godspeed
Setting the Right Pace for the School Year BY ROY GRIFFITH It’s official–the school year is well...
