My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. –Frederick Buechner

Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, at other times—a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their storybooks. —Charlotte Mason

"By asking thought-provoking questions about the basic elements of fiction, you’ll show your students how to think for themselves about any book whatsoever." ow.ly/4rfd50w4ID4

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand." –Ezra Pound

"When we idolize the glories of civilizations past, we often mistake flowers for seeds, and put our hope in something which has already withered and fallen, as it was designed to do." ow.ly/Ow7S50wf8Um

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. —Albert Einstein

"Do we reject a work of art based on its philosophical or ethical message while ignoring its artistic merits altogether? Do non-literary concerns sometimes shoulder their way into our literary decision-making?" ow.ly/hiU550xUwKL

"I want to be the kind of person who reads War and Peace, not the person who reads Twilight...But if one book title qualifies my identity...there’s the rub." ow.ly/PXmr50y6mCe

2020 is going to be full of some great Pelican Society discussions! 🎉

We are thrilled to be returning to NCHE!

"Donne’s penitence, grief, and suffering remain certain as he faces the contradictory desires and realities of his own person in a standoff with the self from which he cannot deliver himself, but only await deliverance." ow.ly/yJE350yuOCE

"We cannot lay down our pursuit of personal glorification and hear the Author’s voice aright. But then, education, Christian or otherwise, is not about getting it right. It is about learning to recognize how very wrong we are." ow.ly/7h2250yvNWG

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Coming May 10, 2020: Missy Andrews reflects on over 25 years of homeschooling, relying on the Great Books as a great cloud of witnesses to demonstrate the universal nature of a homeschooling mother’s suffering and the scandalous Gospel available to us all. centerforlit.com/catalogue/2020…

"Our bodies are so fragile, so gross, and so absurd. They are also something we all have in common, leveling the playing field." ow.ly/ZuC650zjFdt

Coming May 10 from CenterForLit. In this memoir, Missy Andrews reflects on over 25 years of homeschooling. She recalls her devastation upon confusing success with identity, and the transformative grace she found in the midst of failure. bitly.com/mydivinecomedy #ad

"He wants what every one of us wants—whether we know it or not—both in this modern age and every age before: He wants to be human, and he wants to go home to his father’s kingdom." My thoughts on "The Frog Prince," hot off the presses at CenterForLit. centerforlit.com/blog-roll/2020…

"We need external forces to do what is right, and we become rebellious and angry when we don’t get our way. Our hearts are both deadened and full of hatred. The solution? The solution is the same solution it’s been since the dawn of time..." Kristen Rudd ow.ly/TQHj50zq6b5

"Every redemptive story has a redeemer. This should go without saying — should. So often, worthwhile stories are interpreted in the shallows where they seem to satisfy modern affinities for personal affirmation. Their worthy depths wait, unsounded." ow.ly/hbdI50zxXBe

Thank you to @thy_lyre for this great review of Missy’s new book!