What Do You Want? An Address to the Lower School Parents of Sager Classical Academy (August 15, 2024) I’ve spent the past twelve back to school years as a classical Christian educator. I’ve also spent the last ten years as a parent of a classical Christian student (in fact, three classical Christian students). Each year I sit, as you are sitting, wondering what the school … Continue reading What Do You Want?
Atwood, Preston. Cantate Domino: A Liturgical Songbook for Classical Christian Schools. Hymnworks. We live in an age of ugliness. Certainly, much remains beautiful and beauty is still all around us, but the world at large has failed to distinguish between the truly, objectively beautiful and that which the masses deem to be beautiful–which is often ugly. Beauty can be in the eye of the beholder … Continue reading Review of Preston Atwood’s Cantate Domino
By now school is back in session for the spring semester and many teachers and administrators may be looking at the schedule and wondering how the curriculum is going to be covered before the end of the year. Certainly we should not ignore the importance of covering important material in our classes with our students, nor should we go into the semester without a plan … Continue reading What is the Liturgy of Your School? (And What Is It Teaching Your Students to Love?)
The Classical Thistle 