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Fault Lines: A Social Justice Vaccine
By Ty Fischer A deadly virus. A novel population. Mitigation efforts fail. Churches divide. The body count grows. Some lock their families away in hopes of avoiding illness. Classical Christian schools have not been immune, having witnessed some of their best and...
1621: As If They Were Wiser Than God
THIS YEAR IN HISTORY The Pilgrims needed two things to immigrate to America: funding and a charter (permission) to start an English colony. Charters came from the Virginia Company of London, a corporation tasked by the Crown to support the settlement of colonies in...
Press Down: Principles from Proverbs for a Productive Summer
By Hannah Grieser My geraniums were already wilting. Sure, I was a new gardener, but I hadn’t expected to fail this quickly. I’d planted those flowers in my front yard just a few days earlier, and despite the May sunshine and my daily watering, they were slouching...
Culture Grip: 1984 to 2021
Reading Books in a Time of Censorship, Dictionary.com, and the “Ministry of Truth”
1984 Reading Books in the Time of Censorship By Daniel Snyder, March 2021 Sales of George Orwell’s 1984, a story now over 70 years old, spiked in 2013 during the revelation of extensive US government spying upon its own citizens. Sales jumped again in 2017 when a...
The Equality Act
The Equality Act One of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetime Read: The Equality Act, H.R. 5Breakpoint: The Equality Act The Heritage Foundation: The Dangers of the Equality Act The Public Discourse: Albert Mohler on the Equality Act The new...
GraceLife Church: Neither Judge Nor Jury
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some...
The Words of Power
by Ty Fischer I should have been arrested. I had no clue. Words are powerful. Words create. With them, we propose marriage. We declare war. With words, knaves mislead fools. Words shape treaties, cause rebellions, and melt hearts. Under the right circumstances, they...
Fruit In Its Season
by Ben McReynolds An alumnus perspective In early 2020, a tornado destroyed Rob and Amber Noland’s two cars, and badly damaged their Chattanooga apartment. Sheltering with Amber’s parents, and with COVID-19 concerns and restrictions expanding, they adjusted to working...
Why do we study the Greeks so much?
By Louis Markos As Christians, we must, of course, read and know the Bible intimately, so that we will know how God acted directly in human history, leading up to the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, and looking forward to the Second Coming. Such is...
“Live not by Lies” The Classical Difference Interviews Rod Dreher
"Fighting the Naked Emperor": A Review of Live Not By Lies | Mortification of Spin: Rod Dreher and Live Not by Lies
It’s Garden Season
GARDENING Own The Yard Gardening 10 Top Gardening Tips for Beginners 10 Easy-to-Grow Plants for First-Time Gardeners Planning and Planting Your First Vegetable Garden How Often Should You Water Your Garden? Stump Rot: How To Remove a tree Stump Fast How To Get Rid of...
Bach & Roll
By Hannah Grieser The Christian calendar has a wonderful way of focusing our attention on the rich truths of our faith. Through various family and church traditions, even our youngest children can start to experience the goodness of these truths in tangible ways. Our...
A GIFT WITHOUT AN “ASK.”
A HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IN THE PARK ATTRACTS MORE THAN A LITTLE ATTENTION. -- SCOTT TAYLOR, Headmaster, Veritas Academy, Savannah, GA In December before the break, we received a generous donation from a man in California. Most all our donations come from Veritas families,...
“OUTLOOK” IS IMPORTANT
CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ONWARD The classically educated adults scored significantly higher than other Christians in measures of gratitude, hopefulness, sense that life is under control, and ability to handle suffering. Gene Veith points out something that...
Here I Stand: 1521
This Year in History Martin Luther, German monk and reformer, is excommunicated by Pope Leo X and then summoned to the Diet of Worms to answer for, and recant, his “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “The 95 Theses.” It Is here that...
