Wise Words on Wednesday: Restoring Strength
“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”
Servant of God, Dorothy Day
Month: September 2021
Who were the Cathars?
How was England created?
Wise Words on Wednesday: Education
“The central idea of the present book is very simple. It is that education is not primarily about the acquisition of information. It is not even about the acquisition of ‘skills’ in the conventional sense, to equip us for particular roles in society. It is about how we become more human (and therefore more free, in the truest sense of that word). This is a broader and a deeper question, but no less practical. Too often we have not been educating our humanity. We have been educating ourselves for doing rather than for being.”
Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education
Purple Dreams
This was an audio play written by my friend, Jerry Guern:
If Mega Churches Were Honest
Wise Words on Wednesday: Words and Thinking
“We think by means of words, and we have to use the same ones for so many different thoughts that, as soon as new meanings have entered into one set, they creep into all our theories and begin to mold our whole cosmos.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words