Dr. Gerald Culley is Classics Professor Emeritus from the University of Delaware. He also really cares about MSA students and would like to equip them to understand and defend their faith. Dr. Culley has agreed to teach Apologetics for our kids again this year. This is a very rare opportunity: an expert teacher with his [...]
Read moreWho is your homeschooler? If I ran into you in an elevator and asked you to describe your homeschooler(s), could you give me a one-minute answer? (This by the way, is called an elevator pitch.) If you don’t have an elevator pitch about your kids, maybe your mission has become fuzzy? Why are you homeschooling? [...]
Read moreMonday will be — or was (depending on when you read this) — the 4th of July. We Americans will be — or were — celebrating our independence. From what? you might ask. From our oppressors, we would respond. The English? you ask. (Poor English people. Can you imagine them watching us celebrate being independent [...]
Read moreEarlier this semester I had to give someone some relationship advice. The question of who loved whom — and what exactly love is — was central to our conversation. Then, a couple weekends back, my sister married a very awesome guy. I naturally had to write them a long philosophical discourse on the nature of [...]
Read moreRevolutions seem to be the thing to do recently. In each we see a call for a change in leadership. And with a change in leadership, the people hope, will come a change in the ways their countries are organized. A country, in a sense, is just a large organization. Fortunately for us Americans, the large [...]
Read moreDid you know that philosophers rule the world? Really, they do. (However, the poor things usually don’t get to experience their reign because their philosophies catch on 10 years after they die.) Every day, you are influenced by what philosophers have philosophized into place for you. 1) How did your doctor tell you about the [...]
Read moreOn Monday, the new semester begins for us college people. Starting a new semester here in the new year. I’ll begin by teaching my students about Descartes, who thought of himself as starting philosophy over. Things were going to be new and different and better, Descartes hoped. And things definitely were different because of Descartes. [...]
Read moreKyle Thorp is a Mt. Sophia graduate, student at Grove City College, and son of Allison Thorp. This post is running concurrently on www.7sistershomeschool.com. It’s Christmas Eve. For many years this was a day of torturous anticipation for me. I would be waiting eagerly to see what was in those boxes under the tree. But [...]
Read moreI think C.S. Lewis wrote an essay with that title once. So I decided to borrow it. ____ I was thinking, the other day, about the Classics. You all make your children read them during the school year, and maybe even over the summer. And I bet you’ve all heard some complaint to the effect [...]
Read moreMt. Sophia Academy- Intentionally maximizing our students’ unique abilities, creating a culture for Christ. Students’ Unique Abilities We firmly believe that God has placed into each child unique and beautiful abilities. No two students are alike, but they are all placed here on purpose by a purposeful God. At MSA, we want to help our [...]
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