“Grading” today means watching 20+ students recite sonnets with drama, art, video. I’m in love. Enthralled. Grateful!!!

Cracks me up when people tell me I need to get out of Malibu to see the world… I got here Jan 4. The previous 40+ years, I lived a dozen other places and visited more than those… I’d also add: “In reading great literature, I become a thousand….”

I got my copy! 🥕Haley Stewart🥕 Word on Fire

ON FRIDAY! If you’re in the LA area, this would be a great time to meet! Please come! FREE and open to the public!

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What a reductionistic account of classical education (which has been around since 20th c & isn’t reacting to DEI). Classics are not written by only dead, white males. To say so is ignoring the universal tradition.

So every time the Christians took state power, things went wrong…. Like Christian nationalism?

& I think he missed the millions of slaves and Native Amer. killed by Christians acc. to the laws of the state.

Have you ever hit that point where the only book you want to read is the one you’re planning to write?

It has been my great joy to collaborate with Well-Read Mom over the last 10 years. Please take a peek at the good, true and beautiful cultural work this growing group is doing here & abroad! aleteia.org/2024/04/15/wel…

h/t Jessica Hooten Wilson for her helpful introduction! Short, but it helped me immensely.

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When I shared this picture, I didn't notice one of my other books was right next to #readingfortheloveofGod ! 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/learni…

Thank you for all the Goodreads.com reviews of #whydotheheathenrage ?
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Please keep 'em coming! It's such a gift to O'Connor's legacy! (Also makes me happy to see what her readers also enjoyed)

GREAT NEWS! @Pepperdine is joining the elite universities such as Princeton, Rice, & UPenn that have received Apgar Foundation Grants. We were just awarded a 2024-2025 grant for the GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM!!!

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If you want to learn HOW to read Flannery O'Connor, you'll enjoy this conversation that I had with Evan Rose on Yale Center for Faith & Culture
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Beauty calls us to attend, to slow down, to push against the utilitarian trajectory and favor instead the holy call to delight in something—rather, someone—beyond ourselves.
Jessica Hooten Wilson

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@pepperdinemy GREAT BOOKS students recited the 5th movement in TS Eliot’s “Little Gidding” yesterday and chose to illustrate it ❤️

My prayer for nursing mothers is included. And is the prayers I discovered by Dorothy L Sayers in the archives. Worth it! ❤️

WORD! 🙏