A Review of The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
As an enthusiastic, though occasional, listener of The Literary Life podcast, I was intrigued by Jason M. Baxter’s several interviews and subsequent work with the podcast’s sister-school providing literary education online, the House of Humane Letters. A Dante scholar and professor at Benedictine College, Baxter has recently written an accessible work on the literary influences that shaped the mind and writing of C. S. Lewis. I read...
“Pa Played the Fiddle”: Making Music in the Age of the MP3
I have been reading aloud Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books to my boys over the past year. I read them myself growing up, but I have forgotten most of the stories; I am enjoying them at least as much as my boys are—possibly more. Although I realize the books are based on Laura’s actual childhood and not an exact memoir per se, I am still amazed at the type of life lived by this seemingly run-of-the-mill family of the late...
A Death/Birth
On New Year’s Day, I was sixteen weeks pregnant but found myself waiting in limbo for my six-weeks-dead baby both to arrive and to depart in a medically managed miscarriage. With three healthy and uncomplicated pregnancies under my belt, I felt almost no anxiety when my midwife could not locate a heartbeat with her doppler at my twelve-week appointment. She communicated what I was thinking already: sometimes early on, baby can evade...
A Kindergarten Homeschool Year in the Rearview
As public schools become less and less of a viable option for many Christian families, interest in alternative schooling options is increasing. Christian private schools remain financially unattainable for many (especially for larger families). Homeschooling, on the other hand, can be incredibly intimidating for those without direct experience or exposure to what homeschooling looks like from day to day. The internet has been an...
Act Like a Lady: Recovering Cultural Norms of Christian Femininity
In the last scene of Matt Walsh’s 2022 documentary, What Is a Woman?, Walsh finally gets around to asking his wife (instead of trans activists, gender studies professors, and psychologists, who are unable/unwilling to answer) the question that titles his film. She answers, “An adult human female . . . who needs help opening this,” as she hands her husband a pickle jar. The ending is good because it is so funny; but it is also good...
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