Here’s a funny/tragic video from the Circe Institute blog. Not on the test

The 2008 Covenant Academy golf tournament will be Friday, October 24 at Longwood Golf Club. More information

Houston is recovering from the largest power outage in history. About half of Houston was without electrical power a week after the hurricane. The second half will take much longer to restore than the first half since the easiest repairs were done first. Our building had power shortly after the storm, though presumably many of [...]

Here is a talk from a programming conference about classical education! The talk was given at the 2007 PyCon, a conference for users of the Python programming language. The speaker, Robert M. Lefkowitz,  gives an exposition of ideas from classical education and their application to software development. The Importance of Programming Literacy

Here’s a talk by Murray Gell-Mann on truth and beauty in physics. Gell-Mann has an explicitly non-supernatural worldview and yet he marvels at the beauty and order of the universe.

I’ve updated the Covenant Academy web site, moving to the strictest form of HTML. This should make the pages easier for screen readers and other devices to parse. If you notice any accessibility problems or aesthetic problems, please send let us know.

In my previous post, I commented on a quote from Richard Feynman regarding California science textbooks.  Here I’d like to comment on another quote from the same context. One gets the impression then that science is to be a set of pat formulas to standard questions. “What makes it move,” quickly all hands are eagerly raised, [...]

If a non-physicist has a poster of a physicist, it’s probably a poster of Albert Einstein. But if a physicist has a poster of a physicist, it’s likely to be a poster of Richard Feynman. Feynman is somewhat of a cult hero among physicists because not only was he a top-notch researcher — he won [...]

Today Gene Veith followed up on the topic of two Christian views of vocation that he introduced yesterday. See his new post Those two doctrines of vocation.

Gene Veith has posted a couple fun articles on coffee on his blog lately: Of Coffee and Christianity and The coffee maker and two doctrines of vocation. He ends the latter post by asking how two different Christian perspectives on vocation, the Reformed view and the Lutheran view, would evaluate his story about a barista. Veith [...]