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.
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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.
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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.
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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? Why don’t we start our mornings with hope and trust in what the day will bring? How could we overflow with this contagious joy?
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Singing a Sweeter Song
The Sirens’ song must be resisted, but how? There are two ways, according to Homer.
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