Roots Needed Odysseus needed Ithaca and a mentor. Rehoboam shoud have listened, at least once, to his father’s wisemen. Ignore real roots and perish. Classical schools should know Homer, but many skimp on finding authentic mentors. Christian schools must have heard that ignoring the fathers for a trend (even a good trend) hastily can destroy what might have been established. It would be a great pity to teach Homer and the Bible only to ignore the lessons of the Odyssey... Read more
If you went to college after an excellent high school or sent your children to a very good high school, you both may have experienced this: “College is easier than our high school!” Some high schools are proud to hear this, but since most of these students are borrowing tens of thousands of dollars to attend, there should be less pride and more concern about quality. After all, if grossly unqualified rich kids can get into Ivy quality schools through fraud and... Read more
Classical. Christian. Education. What is it? Classical education is not a curriculum you can buy or a fixed pattern of learning for all people at all places at all times. This is especially true if we consider the education offered in the classical period. Ancient Greek culture stretches over hundreds of years and embraces a wide variety of philosophies and forms of education. If we add Roman ideas, then we add centuries more history and even greater diversity. Global Christians have... Read more
In the movie Inception, the characters are able to enter into the dreams of other people. While in the dream, they can enter yet again a dream of a person in the dream. This gets pretty confusing, especially knowing whether one is in reality or a dream if they lose track of how many dreams they’ve jumped into. To deal with this problem, the characters have devices known as totems, where the behavior of the totem tells them whether they... Read more
I asked for different voices and I got them! Here is a guest post by Caitlin Cogan Doemer. As usual, opinions are the writers. Caitlin Cogan Doemner, MBA, is an alumna of the Torrey Honors Institute and recently published a book with her husband called “Sex Every Day: How to Prioritize Pleasure in Your Marriage” which you can find at www.SexEveryDayBook.com. They live in southern California with their four children, 1 cat and 17 chickens. This article discusses marital love and... Read more
I asked for guest voices and I got …awesomeness. Today we hear from Leilani Mueller. Leilani Mueller is the wife to Nathan, a philosopher and mother to Felicity and Gabriel with one more inside. She writes, thinks, teaches, directs, and tries to live an examined life. ————————————————- My son laughs easily and it engulfs the attention of the room like fair spring weather after the cold. I think I blinked, because next week he will be sixteen months. Sixteen months... Read more
Long ago cartoons, programming for younglings, most happened on Saturday morning. I recall looking forward to the new shows. . . What is Super Friends? Scooby-doo? Hong Kong Phooey? This was not the best of cartoon times. Mom and Dad “let” me get up early and watch what was worth watching. . . My generation may have come to traditionalism by noticing that the old cartoons (Bugs Bunny! Daffy! Mickey!) were so much better than Speed Buggy. After cartoons, we... Read more
I am sorry. Why? I loved being in love, but my ideas about love as a youngling were harmful. Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. God used His servant, Charlotte Bronte, to educate me. Jane Eyre is the Christian romantic novel: structured from Genesis (Jane born in the ‘red room’) to Revelation (‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!’ is the last line). Jane Eyre reminds us that the “super-Christian,” the one that blusters about holiness continuously,... Read more
I asked for some new voices from social media chums. Here is a Daniel Larsen, a former student. ————————————————— Recently, a friend asked on social media what people thought about the church being criticized for saying “God will not give you more than you can handle”. The argument goes that the church should not be saying this because God will give us more than we can handle, but He will empower us to endure it. My friend then argued that... Read more
I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the erudite James R. Harrington. James R. Harrington earned his M.A. in Ancient History at California State University Fulleron and is a member of the Torrey Honors Institute. James has been a classical educator in a variety of settings over the past thirteen years. He lives in Houston with his wife, Sharon, and their daughter. Mr Harrington: “Ancient Greece” covers hundreds of years and miles so... Read more
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