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“Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)

November 16, 2015 by Angela O'Neal 3 Comments

Act III of Shakespeare’s King Lear gets to me every time.

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Filed Under: Life in the Academy, Love Your Academic Discipline Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, creativity, Elizabeth Bennett, Holly Ordway, imagination, Jane Austen, King Lear, literary apologetics, literary study, Love Your Academic Discipline, Michael Card, Pride, Pride & Prejudice, Scholar's Call, Shakespeare, sin, spiritual formation, The Four Loves, truth, w. h. auden

Does Education Need to Have a Highest Good?

July 19, 2011 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

While mowing the grass on Sunday, here’s the question that was put to me through my headphones: Is it possible to really have education — and hence to nourish imaginations — if schools refuse to define some highest good that is ordering educational life, some higher good that is transcendent or spiritual in some way? […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: anthony esolen, anthony kronman, education, imagination, ken myers, mars hill audio

A Land Full of Mystery, Danger, and Wonder

July 30, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

How well does film convey material from classic literature? Can film be used to introduce a book and draw people into reading or does it stall the imagination, even inoculate against digging into the original text?  Any classroom or personal experience(s) to share? What brings the question to mind? The recent release of the trailer […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, film, imagination, Johnny Depp, literature, movies, reading, Tim Burton

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