Cultivating Spirituality and the Challenge of Digital Screen Technology
David Diener discusses the challenges that digital technology poses to spirituality.
Day: June 18, 2016
Did Rome Fall? And Other Historical Questions That We Need to Ask But Seldom Do
Christopher Schlect discusses the need to teach our history students to interrogate the historical narratives that frame our conceptions (and misconceptions) of the past:
Why Can’t They Just Sit Still? An Exploration of Dualism’s Impact on Modern Education
Athena Oden relates our contemporary understanding of child development to a basic truth of classical education: that man is created in the image of God.
Recovering the Lost Tools of Loving: The Missing Link Between Truth and Goodness in Christian Education
Scott Aniol discusses the Judeo-Christian tradition of Beauty, or rightly ordered loves, as the missing link between right thinking and right action, in order to teach our children to be complete Christians in mind, will, and emotions.
Teaching Sentence Diagramming as Storytelling
Catherine McChristian explores how to set up the task of diagramming sentences as a mystery to be explored.
Wonder Leads to Worship
John Mays examines the role of wonder at creation in the process of discipleship.
Latin Leaning in the Age of Amnesia
Phillip Donnelly explains how the study of ancient (rather than modern) languages is uniquely suited for Christian education based on the verbal arts.
Why Rhetoric is Not a Subject, Why Every Subject Needs Rhetoric, and How to Teach It
Andrew Kern discusses the importance of rhetoric in every subject.
Puzzle, Proof, and Play: A Pedagogy of Wonder for Mathematics
Ravi Jain explores how teaching math through a pedagogy of puzzle, proof, and play can help recover this wonder and cultivate wisdom.
Finding Wonders, Work, Wisdom and Worship in Natural Science
Ravi Jain explores how recovering natural history and the common arts provides the appropriate context for wonder and work in natural science and teaching along the narrative of discovery in conversation with biblical thought can cultivate a wisdom that culminates in worship.