by Tina Bergs | Dec 19, 2025 | Journal
When you visit an art museum and you have a limited amount of time, where do you decide to concentrate your efforts? Personally, I would rather not waste my time on the Andy Warhols and Jackson Pollocks. Instead, take me straight to see the vibrant van Gogh or the...
by Elisha Galotti | Sep 15, 2025 | Journal
“I’m not walking anymore!” My five-year-old student’s brown eyes looked up at me as he said this, feet planted on the sidewalk. The line of a dozen paired-up students came to a stop behind us. It was a warm September afternoon, and our kindergarten class was halfway...
by Roger Bergs | Jun 15, 2025 | Journal
A large fraction of my life as a professional musician involves teaching at the postsecondary level. I teach courses that examine the logic of harmony and form: how notes come together to form chords, how chords interact to build phrases of music, and how phrases...
by Tina Bergs | May 15, 2025 | Journal
I vividly recall the first time I read an entire novel. I was eight years old, and I had just begun volunteering in the school library. Our librarian was an admirable, elegant lady, and she recommended a particular book to me. I signed it out—the process where you...
by Ann Garau | Apr 15, 2025 | Journal
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter,” says Roger Scruton.1Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 161. If we look around us, it is hard to disagree with him. Classical...
by Tina Bergs | Mar 15, 2025 | Journal
The habits we acquire when we are young, whether good or bad, often endure for life. Our habits make it easier or harder for other people to live with us. Our habits help or hinder our learning. Our habits can either assist us in our walk of faith under the rule of...
