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Why Movement Matters

Andrea Dunn

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Andrea Dunn

Why Movement Matters

Why does movement matter? I have always been a person who loves to move and see it as a natural trait I possess, but for some people hearing the word exercise, they get bogged down and would rather have their teeth pulled. Okay, maybe that is an exaggeration,...

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On Christian Poetry and Calvin Miller

Dr. Timothy E. G. Bartel

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Dr. Timothy E. G. Bartel

On Christian Poetry and Calvin Miller

One of the simplest ways to define Christian poetry is as poetry whose subject is Christ. Christian writers today would be quick to point out that such a definition cannot be exhaustive, for many deeply Christian poems never mention Christ. But historically...

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Lower School Correspondent: Our New Chicken Coop

Madilyn Anne

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Madilyn Anne

Lower School Correspondent: Our New Chicken Coop

This is the first dispatch from Madilyn, our new Lower School Correspondent. She is in fourth grade at TSCS and will be writing articles concerning the goings-on at our school. Welcome to our writing staff, Madilyn!  TSCS has very exciting news this...

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All Hallows Day

Elizabeth Cogburn

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Elizabeth Cogburn

All Hallows Day

The host of Saints surrounds us and continues a life of prayer and devotion. Throughout the year we remember various saints like Thekla and Athanasius. At our school we take particular care to remember the saints of our four houses: Saint Lucy, Saint...

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How to Know if You’re a Fool

Cate Gilbert

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Cate Gilbert

How to Know if You’re a Fool

I’m not sure there’s a more important author for teenagers right now than Blaise Pascal, but not for the thing he’s most famous for. I remember in high school and college reading his most famous argument, “the wager”, in which he proposes that...

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The Gettier Problem in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Andrew Cogburn

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Andrew Cogburn

The Gettier Problem in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

This blog post will have spoilers for the movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi After many hard-fought battles throughout the Star Wars franchise, the rebels find themselves hopelessly cornered in an old rebel base. In front of the only known entrance of the...

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I Don’t Have a Favorite Student

Thalia Westmoreland

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Thalia Westmoreland

I Don’t Have a Favorite Student

A few weeks before I started teaching, someone told me I would have favorites: one student, maybe two, that I loved teaching more than any other. Those students would be the reason I stuck around, because the rest of the class would be such a huge drain...

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Listening with Hope

Lydia Holt

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Lydia Holt

Listening with Hope

Every now and then, there’s a concert that sticks in your head. As a lifelong Houstonian, the bulk of my memories were made downtown in Jones Hall— —Sitting in Jones Hall two years ago during the Houston Symphony performance of Haydn’s Die Schopfung...

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Try. Try Again.

Laura Nicol

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Laura Nicol

Try. Try Again.

There’s a little drama that plays itself out countless times a day in the lower grades of The Saint Constantine School. You can catch performances in classrooms, in lunchrooms, on the playground and in various hallways across campus. Most go something...

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The Story is Freedom

Daniel A. E. Reynolds

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Daniel A. E. Reynolds

The Story is Freedom

Why is history important?  Why should we study it?  One answer to these questions from a Christian perspective is that God seems to put historical experience at the forefront of His relationship with mankind.  The story of the People of God does not...

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