What would happen if you tried to have no impact on the world you live in?
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Please add these four conversations to your calendar for the Fall semester. Great for parents, teens, friends in the community.
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… [P]eople today can rediscover the greatness of the sacred music tradition of the universal Church, and in particular of the Roman Rite…. [and] see more clearly the radiant beauty, spiritual depth, youthfulness, integrity, and life which flow from this tradition, so as to receive it and be fully connected to it once more.
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Announcing the winners of the Stratford Caldecott Memorial Scholarships!
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I’m happy to announce that the Chesterton Schools Network has partnered with the Franciscan University of Steubenville to allow students enrolled at Chesterton Academies the opportunity to graduate with 36 college credits!
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In An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis introduces the idea that, rather than sort through the opinions of literary critics for best books, we may consider what books the best readers choose. He goes on to develop a clear comparison between best and worst readers that is a telling criticism of the read-and-answer-questions approach to literature of many educators. Flannery O’Connor would be pleased.
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If you had told me I’d ever be reading books about math in my leisure time, I’d have scoffed. No way is Word Girl ever going to get a grip on math! But, I finally realized math actually is the language God seems to speak when he’s creating wonders of nature and laws of physics and music of the planets instead of sitting ‘round heaven’s bonfire telling stories.
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Pope John Paul II once said we could know him best by studying his plays. His understanding of the role of drama, of the spoken word, in proposing truth to the world is at the core of all his writings about human freedom and human destiny. His Rhapsodic Theatre was a form of cultural resistance to the Nazi suppression of national identity.
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The qualities that distinguish the ‘adult’ from the ‘youth’ model can start some interesting conversations.
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Socratic questioning, proving a point with evidence, digging beneath the surface for hidden meanings, restating an opponent’s position well, persuasion and debate – is a sort of foreign language to many of today’s students.
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If I could make one book required reading for Catholic parents and educators, it is Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake. In six succinct chapters, he leads readers from the history of education’s disintegration to a vision for its restoration and ‘re-enchantment’.
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The Violent Bear it Away has some surprising insights for educators. Flannery knew, as she acknowledged in a letter, that her “modern reader will identify himself with the schoolteacher [George Rayber], but it is the old man [Mason Tarwater, the seemingly crazy backwoods prophet] who speaks for me.”
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We couldn’t put it down!
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