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When Does Advent Begin?

July 15, 2023November 25, 2014 by Reynolds

The Christian season of Advent always begins four Sundays before Christmas Day. So the number of days in Advent varies. For 2014, count back four Sundays before Christmas and you arrive at November 30 as the start date. Advent ends on Christmas Eve 25 days … Read more

Lessons and Carols

September 21, 2020December 11, 2009 by Professor Carol

For weeks, our little vocal ensemble here in Bowie has been rehearsing for our upcoming Festival of Lessons & Carols. In music, we talk so much about “ancient” traditions, meaning traditions at least a few centuries old. By that standard, the Festival of Nine Lessons … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”