2016 Workshop Talk | 0:57:16 | All Grade Levels, Literature
Summary
Critical thinking is essential for any faithful student. But so is critical feeling. Loyalties are not established through reason, but through narrative. Loves are not grown on a bed of premises, but on a bed of actions, real and imaginary. Narratives must make sense, but our sense must also make narratives. All men and women live and breathe in story, but faithful men and women strive to be wide-eyed students of the Story, readers of the Story, seers and sayers and retellers of the Story (in both word and deed). That is what it means to be a disciple, and disciples are what our schools should aim to create.
Speaker
N.D. Wilson is a best-selling author and a Fellow of Literature at New St. Andrews College. His books have been published in dozens of languages all around the globe, and his nonfiction work, Death by Living, won top honors in Christianity Today’s 2014 Book Awards in the spirituality category. More recently, he has been working as a screenwriter and filmmaker, and is currently preparing C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce for production (after years of development). He received his BA from New St. Andrews College and his MA from St. JohnÍs College, but the foundation of his education was laid by Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, where he attended K_12, where his five children all currently attend, and where he now serves as a permanent board member. He and his wife, Heather, live in a tall skinny house with their busy children and almost as many pets as Noah took on the Ark.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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