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...
by Ryan Eras | Feb 15, 2025 | journal
In her book The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy Sayers draws attention to an important detail about the nature of man as the image-bearer of God. Considering Genesis 1, when God says, “Let us make man in our image,” Sayers observes that at this point in history, we do not...
by Elisha Galotti | Jan 15, 2025 | journal
During my first year teaching kindergarten, a parent expressed concern over our school’s practice of prompting children to make eye contact during lessons and interactions. She expressed her concern this way: “Children should never be told to look at someone. Instead...
by Brenden Bott | Dec 17, 2024 | journal
“Nothing in the world will be a surer help to you than proper manners.” 1Daniel of Beccles, “The Book of the Civilised Man: An English Translation of the Urbanus Magnus of Daniel of Beccles,” quoted in Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World,...
