The world of education is often rife with acronyms, and one that we hear frequently is “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and its latest iteration, “STEAM”, which includes all of those disciplines plus “the Arts”. A few years ago, I was at a social...

Michael Van Hecke reports on a talk by Martin Cothran, Editor of Memoria Press's "The Classical Teacher".    Last week, St. Augustine Academy enjoyed the wisdom of Martin Cothran at our Parent Lecture. One of the first things he clarified was that classical...

Last week, my wife, a painter-friend of ours, who wishes to be anonymous, and I did the Friday night walk down Canyon Road, the site of numerous galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a small town that is the third-largest art market in the United States. Halfway down...

​In The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Milton Gregory’s little gem of a template for the art of teaching, Gregory takes on the apparent conflict between “inspired” teaching and a systematic, ordered approach to it. Early in the book, he states that “Unreflecting...

Not every saint is cut from the same cloth, and the ways of imitating Christ are many and varied.  Reading the lives of the saints can enrich our awareness of the many possibilities open for our own growth in holiness and our own progress in the imitation of Jesus....

"I have seen the unity of Truth that underlies our teaching." - a conference participant "This conference has helped me put my heart in the right place before I begin planning for the new year." - conference participant ​ There has been a good bit of attention paid to...