Kechi Ladapo

The plan boiled down to the following: Make students write more all through the core, and improvement will follow. It really wasn’t a bad premise. But reading samples of student papers semester after semester, I wasn’t sure it quite delivered. Why not? I have four reasons to propose here that are relevant to the rest of us.

1. The best writers read a

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We catechize because we must. For catechesis is both a very biblical idea and a faithful practice

of the church through the ages. Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has floundered. We catechize in obedience to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of the

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Reading books has always been a political action, but good gracious, are we being reminded anew of the subversive act these days, eh? Libraries, writers, books, and freedom of thought are under attack or under suspicion or even simply ignored . We are being spooned amusements that require no thought, no engagement, no heart, only our constant... See more

Late have I loved You,

O Beauty ever ancient, ever new,

late have I loved You!

You were within me, but I was outside,

and it was there that I searched for You.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which You created.

You were with me, but I was not with You. Created things kept me from You;

yet if they had not been in You, they would... See more