Dear friends– It is with a keen sense of loss that we announce that Dr. Thomas E. Dillon, beloved President of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, died Wednesday, April 15th, in an auto accident in Ireland. Tom ably and faithfully guided the College through 18 years of growth and remarkable campus development. In
The Narnia Code Premieres on the BBC tonight
In just a few hours, the new documentary The Narnia Code, based on Michael Ward’s book Planet Narnia, will premiere on BBC1 television. The documentary is directed and produced by Norman Stone, who also directed and produced the films C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands and C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia For more information on the
Is There Anything Redeemable about Spam?
For those of you expecting a long rant about the negative aspects of technological spam – about the annoyance of it, the wasted time spent on it, its contribution to the evils of the world, and its negative impact on the environment (yes, spam is not green – see an article about it here and
More on the Worth of the Humanities
Several weeks ago, we posted an article from the New York Times about the place of the humanities in a recession (click here for the original post). As a follow-up, here is another important voice in the discussion of the value of the humanities in higher education. Wilfred McClay, one of our Keynote Speakers at
Poetry in the 21st Century – Does It Matter?
At our Oxbridge 2008 conference, Dana Gioia, award winning poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, gave an address titled “Art and the Search for Meaning.” In it, he discussed the role of art in life, in education, and in Christianity, and argued that we have an innate need for beauty