by Jeanette Faulkner | Spring 2017 The Only Thing Missing for the First Day of School Was the Building When most parents finish the final page of The Case for Classical Christian Education, visions of ivy-covered brick buildings captivate their imaginations. From a...
by Hannah Grieser | Spring 2017 FRESH FRIDAY-NIGHT FUN PIZZA, POPCORN, AND PAGE-TURNERS Reading as a family always sounds like a great idea. At least on paper. But in practice, many of us live as though reading is the kale salad of family activities—good for us, but a...
by Michael Fitts | Spring 2017 A Strategic Education Classical learning on the front lines My classical Christian education started in the 4th grade at Ad Fontes Academy. As a sophomore—which can appropriately be translated as a wise fool—I decided life would...
by Jeffrey Faulkner | Spring 2017 Standing on the Wall with Spenser and Augustine The warrior-poet As I stood in the hallway of Regents School of Austin, I heard my teachers crying. I was starting my first week of high school when the headmaster gathered the upper...
by Jennifer Kau | Spring 2017 Finding Freedom in Lent Five years ago, a young, rag-tag family of six emerged from a mid-week service smelling strongly of scented oil and looking like they’d been to some kind of wild concert. Smudged, black crosses marked all their...
Spring 2017 Deep Waters Ben and Emma Hopkins and Ethan Chaffee aren’t afraid of deep water or hard work. Last spring, the three high school rowers from Augustine Classical Academy, NY, entered the Stotesbury Cup in Philadelphia, PA, the largest scholastic rowing...
Spring 2017 Above: St. Stephen's Academy, OR The new era in classical Christian education For the first 20 years of the classical Christian renewal, growth was our hallmark. While the movement continues to grow, a new development has emerged in the past few...
by Eric Metaxas | Spring 2017 Education is more than STEM C. S. Lewis once said that education without values makes us into “more clever devils.” Here’s why that’s so. We’ve all seen the studies showing that students in America are falling behind in STEM subjects—STEM...
by Rachel Jankovic New traditions for a young family Traditions can be a complicated thing. As a young family starting out, trying to builda few of your own can feel a little shocking. All those fun things you remember about Christmas don’t just happen! Someone...
by David Goodwin | Winter 2016 Christian Education as a Conquering Force That stitch in time that would save nine, for education, was missed a century ago. Christian culture is grasping at threads as it tries to remain relevant. But, there is hope that we can...
by CHRISTOPHER JOHN MAIOCCA | Winter 2016 A study in American innovation One key evidence that our educational system may indeed be broken is the meteoric rise of innovation-based charter schools. In 1996 there were approximately 500 of these schools...
Making Christmas Real Download the Family Advent Script Advent Sundays 2016: November 27, December 4, December 11, December 18 Advent historically begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. Honoring the season with an Advent wreath is...
Top Picture: ©ACCS 2016 Winter 2016 What happens when Christianity is silenced? That airliner you flew on last month had 5000 gallons of explosive jet fuel in the wings. Before you got on it, you must have trusted that the aircraft was working as designed. In the...
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Top Photo: “The Jungle Book,” 2016 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Winter 2016 The rarest of cultural alignments occurred this past year The same story, retold for and by three different generations, is the worldview equivalent of layers in an...
by Marissa Black | Winter 2016 Treasure in the Attic Telling stories of the good life Amongst old stacks of paper discovered in our rafters was a thin orange folder dubbed “geography”—the kind with the little prongs that push apart to secure the worksheets all...
