CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Category: Character formation
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November 14: Moby-Dick
“Call me Ishmael.” Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick begins with a three-word imperative — one of the most famous openings ever written for a novel. That is it the product not of the late twentieth century, but of the mid-nineteenth, is especially remarkable. Whereas most novels of its day ease the reader into the unfolding story by stages, this…
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November 13: St. Augustine of Hippo
While today is not his Feast Day (that’s August 28), November 13 is the anniversary of the birth of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo and prolific author of theologic works, many of which still survive. Church tradition honors the date of a saint’s death, because historically this was the anniversary of martyrdom for many the church…
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November 12: The World Wide Web
In 1984, Timothy Berners-Lee, who had worked at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) as an intern in 1980, returned as a Fellow. He worked to improved CERN’s connectivity to the Internet, and by 1989, it was the largest node in Europe, used by hundreds of scientists worldwide to exchange experimental data, theories, and…