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Jeremiah WebsterFeaturedHistoryEducation

Rise of the Scops: Wonder After the Pandemic

The Anglo-Saxon scop was a figure whose office involved poetic and priestly roles which helped to open medieval eyes to the wonder of creation.

Casey ShuttFeaturedEducation

Violent Schools in a Violent World

The problem for our schools is a flawed telos that is too much in step with the cadence of the wild. An essentially violent world begets violent schools.

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

Public Education, Justice, and Solidarity

The insanity of New York's preschool interviews shows how broken meritocracy is. But justice is more than just sending your kid to a diverse school.

Ian MosleyFeaturedEducation

Latin for Politics: When the World of Spoken Latin Goes Woke

The culture wars are coming to the world of spoken Latin. Figuring out how best to adjudicate the conflict, however, is a complicated matter.

Joshua HeavinFeaturedEducationEvangelicalism

On Theological Education and the Church's Health

The American evangelical church's indifference to theological education is one of the primary causes of its current malaise.

Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEducation

exposing the wounds in the Church

I really wish this New Yorker profile of Karen Swallow Prior had been about three times as long, but it’ll have to do for now: The next morning, we shared a breakfast of scrambled eggs with some venison that Roy had […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEthicsEducation

education and all God's children

I really appreciated D.L. Mayfield’s essay about educating our children and “gifted and talented” programs: What is the right relationship to educational choice for the Christian? It’s complicated, and I often think about what Paul was trying to communicate in […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEducation

culture is learning to be free

This is a fascinating interview with Patrick Deneen at the ever-worthwhile Comment magazine (subscribe now for $30/year!) Liberalism ends in slavery because its notion of freedom involves the pursuit of desires that can never be sated, that can never be fulfilled. […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

more on teaching professionalism to medical students

After reading Brewer Eberly’s great piece on the main site about virtue ethics and the Reformed tradition, I was delighted to find this reflection from him about teaching professionalism to medical students: And yet, medical students may be disconnected from moral […]

Guest WriterFeaturedEducation

A New Kind of Theological Master's Degree

Biola professor Fred Sanders explains the rationale for Biola University's new Master of Arts in Classical Theology program.

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEducation

where Foucault and the Apostle Paul meet

This interview with Alan Jacobs is full of all the things I love to think about! The new book has an “Interlude,” in which you point to “other pilgrims, other paths,” and one of the figures is Dorothy Day, an icon […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsEducation

"has anyone asked working-class families if being sucked into a frantically achievement-obsessed rat race is a benefaction they are interested in?"

This essay from Helen Andrews is just too enjoyable not to share: Does Currid-Halkett have anything bad to say about the new elite? She has just one complaint, which she repeats again and again whenever she senses that she is sounding too […]