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Modern-Yet Worthy-Children’s Books

Modern-Yet Worthy-Children’s Books

Modern-Yet Worthy-Children’s Books ~ by Catherine Wise ~ As engaged parents and educators, I feel reasonably confident that most adults reading this pull from a fantastic reservoir of high quality classic children’s literature for family or classroom read-alouds. I...
Running Toward Temperance

Running Toward Temperance

Running Toward Temperance ~ by Christi Seaward ~ One of life’s great joys is reading classic literature where authors instruct and delight. Charlotte Brontë is one of those great authors. In her novel, Jane Eyre, Brontë delights readers with a well-crafted story of a...
On Reading Charitably

On Reading Charitably

On Reading Charitably ~ by Andy Newman ~ How readers approach a poem, or short story, or novel will determine what they find. There is an old saying that everything looks like a nail, if one only has a hammer. If readers engage a work from a vantage point of suspicion...
“One Unified and Ordered Whole” in Latin Teaching

“One Unified and Ordered Whole” in Latin Teaching

“One Unified and Ordered Whole” in Latin Teaching ~ by Tyrone Benson ~ Earlier this school year (October 2022), I penned an article published in this blog: “A Tamed Tongue As a Type of Temperance.” Its subtitle, “Self-Control in Speech,” pointed to a vital area of...
The Renewing of our Minds

The Renewing of our Minds

The Renewing of our Minds ~ by Rhea Bright ~ And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 12:2) Quite a few years ago (decades, to be...
The Beatitudo of Christmas Lights

The Beatitudo of Christmas Lights

The Beatitudo of Christmas Lights ~ by Monika Minehart ~ A few weeks before Thanksgiving, my daughter ran up to me in the evening after looking out the front window and exclaimed with joy, “They have their Christmas tree up!” She noticed in the early darkness of the...