A few months ago someone asked me for my resume for a volunteer position. I had not worried about a resume since leaving the academic scene to become a stay at home mom almost two decades ago! In fact, I had barely written down my various activities. Obviously, this was going to be a colossal […]
Quotations
Thoughts on Movies
Occasionally, I bump into a quote that won’t leave me alone. In Omnibus 5, tucked in between deep thoughts about Augustine’s The City of God, was this one: Our culture encourages us to feed our desires and not to learn how to control them. There are many instances of this in popular culture. Films like The […]
On the Seduction of Evil and the Father of Lies
Often, when reading through one of the Omnibus volumes for my teens’ schoolwork, I come across a gem. Here are two from the study about The Two Towers by Tolkein, written by Douglas Wilson: Tolkein… ‘knows that evil can be soothing and very seductive. When Saruman spoke, the effect was devastating. “Mostly they remembered only […]