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What A Christmas Carol Taught Me About Holidays

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Dr. John Mark Reynolds

What A Christmas Carol Taught Me About Holidays

Start at Luke 2 if you wish to know why there is Christmas, but if you live in hard times, then Charles Dickens might save your Christmas. The claim that Dickens invented Christmas in the English speaking world is nonsense—he revived it. The World Dickens...

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Art History and Cartoons

Missy Klotz

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Missy Klotz

Art History and Cartoons

I am a profound admirer of the subject of art history.  I love exploring art history spanning from antiquity through the Middle Ages to Contemporary Art.  I teach my students about Classical and Hellenistic Greek architecture, Byzantine icons, Medieval...

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Which is More Radical?

Emily Kasradze

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Emily Kasradze

Which is More Radical?

In April 2018 The Saint Constantine School was cited by the Christian Science Monitor as “perhaps the most radical new model” in education because we educate Kindergarten through College.  This raises a few questions: Which is more radical: to sequester...

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Brian: Friend and Mentor

Kris Yee

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Kris Yee

Brian: Friend and Mentor

Sometimes coming up with blog topics is difficult. We sign up for our blogs at the beginning of the year, so we can plan our blog dates around our class schedules. I signed up for a blog this week because I knew we’d be discussing Nietzsche in Great...

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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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