I recently heard an interview with journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault who was, as a young Charlayne Hunter, one of two black students to integrate the University of Georgia exactly 50 years ago this... Read More »
Christmas is one of those times of the year when we are most likely to fool ourselves. We assume that in order to get into the Christmas spirit we must engage in a certain number of activities,... Read More »
As a little girl in Maine, I was truly confounded by the notion of Christmas among sunshine, shorts, and palm trees. To me, the season was inextricably bound to December’s cold darkness and... Read More »
There are a lot of very smart people in Episcopal schools and they are thinking about education in complex and exciting ways. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the workshops and plenary sessions... Read More »
We’ve all heard that veiled accusation, in one form or another, as someone claims that we are not living up to our name as a religious school. Be it the perceived absence of mercy or the... Read More »
Along with Halloween and Thanksgiving, October and November usher in the season of parent-teacher conferences. This week, in fact, I will babysit my sister’s youngest child so that she and her... Read More »
Editor’s note: The comments below were originally posted on September 16, 2010 as “The Dean’s Commentary,” a daily reflection by the Very Reverend Ian Markham, dean and... Read More »
Few books have had such an impact on me as the one I recently completed, Kenda Creasy Dean’s Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church. It is her... Read More »
The “busy-ness” of the year always ratchets up too quickly. It seems that just yesterday we were sharing summer stories and wondering aloud about the year ahead. By the end of September,... Read More »
I am a leader of an Episcopal school because I know its Episcopal identity nourishes our children’s minds and enriches their lives in and out of school. Maintaining and strengthening that... Read More »