Is life moving faster? Some people say it is. A study done in large cities around the world found that the speed of people’s walking in 2007 had increased 10% in just a decade. That was 17 years ago! People might be walking even faster now. And it turns out attention spans are getting shorter…
The Battle Belongs to the Lord Every other year I get to read through the book The Screwtape Letters with a class of 9th & 10th graders. This tiny but powerful book by C.S. Lewis follows the correspondence of a senior demon (Screwtape) writing to advise a junior demon (Wormwood) about how to keep his human…
Growth Doesn’t Just Happen We’re only a third of the way through summer. September is far enough away that I still feel I have time to enjoy the warm, lazy days. But it’s still close enough to make me feel a sense of urgency that keeps me from neglecting my lesson planning. One of the…