Standing the Test of the Good
Is classical education traditionalist?
Category: Teacher Stories
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 3
Part 3 explores the middle age's creative appropriation of the pagan past.
“Iesous Heros” by David Armstrong
“In Christian theology, Jesus is more than a hero, but he certainly is not less than one . . . “ In seventh grade English…
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 2
Part 2 explores the attitudes toward pagan literature found among the Greek fathers, with particular attention to Basil the Great.
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 1
The Early Latin West: Tertullian, the irascible third century African church father, famously criticized the use of pagan literature by Christians with a terse question:…
Instructor Profile: Danielle Bennette Dukes
Danielle Bennette Dukes’ new course, “Teaching with a Golden Thread: Modeling an Integrated Christian and Classical Homeschool,” has just been released. Danielle has deep roots…
“Defeating Our Mid-Winter Demons” by Annie Crawford
Around mid-February, our family and homeschool community begin to struggle with that demon who seems to especially delight in tormenting students and educators: Slog. Stupider…
“On Welcoming Opprobrium: Keep Calm And…” by Nathan Bradshaw
Like many lovers of classics, I have been distressed that the “culture wars” — as we probably shouldn’t call them, but do anyway — have…
Reading the Book of Nature
Before my children learned to recognize the letters of the alphabet, reading a story to them was a mysterious, magical exercise. For example – some…
Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
We began our new homeschool year last week on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. ✝️ We read in our morning time…
