Education is not vocational training. I don’t know about you but there is something about the cold and dark of winter that make me contemplative. It could be that with the lack of light outside; I’m forced to look at the inward working of my mind. There is little better in winter than a hot …
Monthly Archives: December 2025
God Doesn’t MEAN That!
How to read God’s Word Recently, I watched Mufasa with my kids. It’s fine, has some fun songs, and has some good leadership and family dynamics to talk through with kids. Two scenes stood out to me this time through it. Towards the middle of the movie, Mufasa meets Rafiki who is a crazy monkey …
Progymnaswhata?
A Case for the Ancient Set of Exercises Growing up going to school, I had written my share of thesis and research papers. I even passed most of them. When I started at ECS, I didn’t realize how little I knew about papers and even less about the Progymnasmata. Besides being a word that I …
Women and War
Should Girls Watch War Movies? Recently in school, we wrapped up our time in a historical fiction book called Killer Angels. It is a great retelling of the Battle of Gettysburg, which is a gruesome and terrible battle for the U.S because it is all of our men fighting and dying in it. We were killing …