The Gift and Grace of the Ordinary

The Gift and Grace of the Ordinary

The following address was delivered by English tutor Mrs. Anna Lee at the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2025. Granite Class of 2025, parents, family, friends, it is my honor to speak to you today.  I too am a mom to a child who is also a member of the Class...
Dear Class of 2025

Dear Class of 2025

It’s my tradition to give each graduating class a book. I pick something different for each class, something that I hope will speak to your souls as you transition into life beyond high school. Or, if you don’t read it right away, I like to think God might knock it...
Casting Your Heart Out of Your Ken

Casting Your Heart Out of Your Ken

We’re just over halfway through our school year, and that means we’ve been contemplating our theme at the Columbia campus, “Be strong and courageous,” from Joshua 1:9, for almost twenty weeks. It’s a good time to consider what courage means, where it comes from, and...
To the Class of 2024

To the Class of 2024

I knew in January what I would be getting for you all as a graduation gift. I knew then because you all shocked me by returning a record number of poems written in response to the optional midterm question that prompted you to write a poem in response to a Chesterton...
Loving What is Beautiful

Loving What is Beautiful

In The Way of Beauty,David Clayton asks an important question: “What does the famous and mysterious phrase of Dostoyevsky, ‘Beauty will save the world’…mean? Does this mean that the beauty that is in the world will save it? Or must we look for a beauty...