The Benefits of Fiction

The Benefits of Fiction

By Ava Kitchen This speech was given as a keynote address, a culminating exercise for 11th grade students at Granite Classical Tutorials. Ah, December, that delightful month of thankful celebration, happy reunion, and crippling self-doubt as you try to find a gift for...
Tell Me the Story of Jesus

Tell Me the Story of Jesus

Imagine with me an expert weaver of old. The artist stands before the life size loom. She has spent days sourcing, spinning, and dying wool. The colors vary from bright to dull. Painstakingly, she begins to weave the fibers through the heddles, guiding the strands...
A Feast of Stories

A Feast of Stories

Granite’s theme for the 2021-2022 academic year is “Stories Nourish the Soul.” As Christians, Scripture is the first story that feeds our souls and informs all other narratives. My 7th grade class studied Job in Omnibus I last autumn. During Job’s defense in the...
Stories Nourish the Soul

Stories Nourish the Soul

“Christian classical education is the transmission of the culture of the Church through a faculty of friends who love the truth by cultivating virtue in the students in body, heart, and mind, and nurturing their love for wisdom and faithful service of the Lord Jesus...