By Lindsey Scholl It’s scary to write an intelligent article about competence. So I’ll begin softly, with a one-sided conversation. One day, Dorothy Sayers received a letter from an admirer of her play, The Zeal of Thy House. Like almost all of her plays, this...
by Kristina Cowan “Wow, that was fun!” my sixth-grader says as he darts from the halls of Naperville Christian Academy and bounds my car. “What was fun?” I ask. I assume he’s referring to an exchange with his friends. “The school day, Mom. It was great. A lot of fun.”...
by Cara Bergeron For the purpose of argument, “go medieval” with me for a few minutes… Jettison the oh-so-contemporary word “innovation” from your vocabulary. It was not a central word in the medieval vocabulary. It didn’t need to be, because the medievals had memory...
I grew up watching This Old House with my Dad. I actually couldn’t care less (then and now) about nuances of carpentry or dovetailed joints, but I loved spending time with my Dad, and the information proved invaluable when working at Home Depot and smugly telling a...
Think about the last time you visited a museum. Were you excited, or did you break out in a cold sweat at the mere thought of having to navigate the vast halls? Did you leave feeling enriched or exhausted? If you could relive that time, what would you do...
Everyone knows a kangaroo trips when he tries to run, and everyone knows the world is filled with contradictions. People say one thing and do another. Medicines designed to cure, instead carry side effects worse than the original ailment. Politicians elected to pass...
See more in The Stacks. Please note that the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the ACCS. By Jannica Gregory When in high school English classrooms it is time to read Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two Cities, it truly is the best of...
See more in The Stacks. Please note that the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the ACCS. By Paul Renfroe Accuracy can be used to obscure Truth. As the saying goes, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”...
See more in The Stacks. Please note that the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the ACCS. By Deanna Kotila Socrates was a brave man. Yes, he had been soldier, but more importantly he was a man who wasn’t afraid of the answers to...
By KYLE D. RAPINCHUK Visit:The Classical Thistle In Christian communities, we commonly study literature with an aim towards assessing the worldview of a particular work. We may look at the characters and their choices in order to determine if they are moral or not and...
Photo: Trinitas Christian School, Pensacola, FL by PATRICK HALBROOK History & Rhetoric Teacher, Cary Christian School Originally published: https://www.carychristianschool.org/are-they-ready-to-give-an-answer/ But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be...
By JENNIFER DURHAM Startups Schools are starting around the country (and even around the globe). Some of these startups post information on the ACCS main website. To see this list visit ClassicalChristian.org/start-a-school. It was Sunday, July 30th, 2017 when we...
By PATRICK HALBROOK If a high school student asked you to recommend a college where the Bible is faithfully taught, Christian moral principles are held in high esteem, and knowledge of God is understood to be the foundation of all knowledge, what would you suggest? A...
By Edward Straka According to Harold J. Berman – author of Law and Revolution and former law professor at Harvard University – history is driven by revolutions that drive changes in the law structure of society that affects the governance of people, places and things....
By G. Tyler Fischer, Head of School, Veritas Academy It is easy to experience disequilibrium at Cambridge. The first event during my recent visit to the University of Cambridge was dinner. When I sat down, I struck up a conversation with the affable man seated...
by Faith Silvertooth Christian Heritage Classical School, Longview, TX Today, we finished reading Charlotte’s Web. It was very emotional for us. As I was reading the chapter in which Charlotte dies, I noticed one of my students gasp. I looked up to realize she figured...
by Alane Holm Ars longa; vita brevis. "Art is long, life is brief." This phrase is attributed to the fourth century Roman statesman, Seneca, but it is believed to have originated first with Hippocrates, who spoke to this human dilemma in the opening pages of his...
Morality While Motoring Depending on where we lived at the time, we have had anywhere from a twenty to fifty (!) minute drive to the classical Christian school my children attend. As such, we have devoted plenty of effort over the years to developing creative ways to...
Sometimes it’s as much fun to read about food as it is to eat it. Consider this passage from Dickens’ novel, Pickwick Papers: “Mr. Pickwick found that his three companions had risen and were waiting his arrival to commence breakfast, which was ready laid in tempting...
Henry Ford famously said history is “bunk,” by which he meant that people should live in the present and not in the past. This common criticism of history has bled into the church. It has been equal parts ironic and ruinous that the church’s resistance to church...
A Message to the Class of 2016 (and for Everyone) (Adapted & Re-Printed) Over the last two centuries, a popular but troubling theology has emerged in Christian churches. The doctrine of God's perfect will suggests that our Creator has a hidden plan for our lives...
