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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"Fighting the Naked Emperor": A Review of Live Not By Lies | Mortification of Spin: Rod Dreher and Live Not by Lies
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. ~ C.S. Lewis, Abolition of...
A MAN WHO HAS LIVED IN MANY PLACES IS NOT LIKELY TO BE DECEIVED BY THE LOCAL ERRORS OF HIS NATIVE VILLAGE: THE SCHOLAR HAS LIVED IN MANY TIMES AND IS THEREFORE IN SOME DEGREE IMMUNE FROM THE GREAT CATARACT OF NONSENSE THAT POURS FROM THE PRESS AND THE MICROPHONE OF...
Print RECIPE Hot cross buns with a hollow “empty tomb” center Makes 12-18 rolls. Soak: ½ c Zante currants (or raisins) in ½ c boiling water Let sit off heat until plump, 30 min to an hour. Drain and set aside. Combine: 1 package (2 ¼ t yeast) ⅓ c white sugar ¾ c warm...
