Our imaginations should be nourished as an instrument by which we know reality. While C.S. Lewis espoused many thought-provoking ideas, this lesson is a difficult, perhaps impossible one for us to understand, yet it is extremely pertinent for our technolo ...
STEM, STEAM, and STREAM? You Don’t Have to Choose
Let me just say it and get it out of the way: there’s nothing wrong with STEM. Science, technology, engineering and math are all good pursuits. President Obama put out the call in his 2011 State of the Union Address, igniting a movement to teach studen ...
Dr. Paul McClure To Speak To The School of Rhetoric
The School of Rhetoric will have the pleasure of hearing Dr. Paul McClure speak to them on November 13th at 1:10 pm. in the Moomaw Gymnasium. His topic will be, “Identity, Conformity, and Technology in a Rapidly Changing World.” We are honored to have Mr. ...
Bon Appetit! When Poetry is the Feast
The following post was contributed by faculty members, Kathryn Martin and Starlet Baker, after attending a lecture hosted by the Trinity Forum in Washington D.C. Poet Dana Gioia, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was the key-note ...
Community Lecture Series
Our Community Lecture Series on October 17, 2019 featured Dr. Tamara Long from Abilene Christian University. Dr. Tamara Long worked with faculty and students, speaking to us on "Helping Students Realize their Potential: Understanding Core Strengths Tha ...
New Covenant and the National Reading Crisis
I consistently tell prospective parents that there are a hundred ways to teach students how to read. There are also some ways not to teach them. Reading is not a natural function of the brain. Humans didn’t invent an alphabet until 3200 BC, or thereabouts ...