Category Archives: education

Day 15 Why Jesus is preeminently called “The Christ”

Posted on February 1, 2023 by marklangley

In this episode we read the short section from the Catechism concerning the word Christ (Χριστοσ) and how this word is especially applied to our Lord and Savior Jesus. Jesus Christ is preeminently a priest prophet and king and therefore … Continue reading →

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Day 10 I believe in God the Father “Almighty”

Posted on January 23, 2023 by marklangley

In this episode we discuss the word almighty in the first article of the Creed. This word does not imply that God is able to do things which are actions of weakness (e.g lying or being deceived). Additionally, the in … Continue reading →

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Why Does Christ Say “Do Not be Called Teacher”? A Word to Teachers for the New School Year.

Posted on August 28, 2022 by marklangley

Now it is not only clear from this text (Matthew 23:8), but I have had it on authority from multiple sources that the word ‘Rabbi’ means ‘teacher.’ Hence the King James version of this same passage reads, And do not … Continue reading →

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Catholic Classical Education: Sing to The Lord a New Song!

Posted on April 3, 2022 by marklangley
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Make Your House Fair as You are Able!

Posted on December 23, 2021 by marklangley

What is Christmas about? What is Advent about except to prepare for and celebrate the arrival of Wisdom Himself, in the form of a little baby, into the warm hospitable stables of our own hearts! We have been doing our … Continue reading →

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Why Has Education Collapsed?

Posted on July 11, 2021 by marklangley

Over the course of my thirty years as an unwitting member of a loosely knit community that might even amount to a ‘movement’-an education reform movement-I have certainly met many whom I feel fortunate to call friends, who care deeply … Continue reading →

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How Does Anyone Love the Lord God With the Whole Mind?

Posted on October 26, 2020 by marklangley

In this last Sunday’s Gospel we hear, You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart,with all your soul,and with all your mind. Now I think most people are familiar with the first two thirds of this injunction- we … Continue reading →

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Pope Pius XI: Encouragement for Teachers From a Teacher’s Pope

Posted on August 21, 2020 by marklangley

No matter what ails the nation, turmoil in the inner city, conflagrations, and riots, anxiety over the upcoming election, fears rational and irrational, nonetheless, along with the season of fall there arrives the insuppressible feeling of a new academic year! … Continue reading →

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The Civil War Did Not End These Four Kinds of Slavery.

Posted on July 8, 2020 by marklangley

The bad news is that the Civil War did not put an end to slavery. Sure, the Civil War did end the apparent and visible slavery that made legal the ownership of human beings by other human beings, whereby the … Continue reading →

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Learning in Virus Time

Posted on March 9, 2020 by marklangley

In a sermon delivered in the Fall of 1939 titled Learning in Wartime, C.S. Lewis asserts, every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are … Continue reading →

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