Note: Andy Newman will be teaching The Theo-epic of Salvation: An Introduction to the Holy Scriptures this fall online for Kepler. Class begins Sept. 8. Early registration ends July 15. The class works well for home-schooled students, as well as those attending private or public schools, since the class meets online weekly from 7-8:15 a.m. MT, Saturday. This essay originally in the Scottsbluff (Neb.) Star-Herald on Oct. 13, 2017. Words, the novelist Walker Percy maintained, have …
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Note: Andy Newman will be teaching Creative Writing: Awakening Wonder with Wordsworth, Hopkins, and Bradbury this summer for Kepler. Class begins June 29. This essay first appeared June 23, 2006, at National Review Online. Every summer I never fail to take my paperback copy of Dandelion Wine down from the shelf. I say this not to brag, not to be that front-row kid who dashed through the school’s approved summer reading list in the first weeks …
Note: Andy Newman will be teaching Creative Writing: Awakening Wonder with Wordsworth, Hopkins, and Bradbury this summer for Kepler. Class begins June 29. “Read William Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ for tomorrow,” many a teacher in many a classroom has said over the years, though, if reports from the front-lines with incoming college freshmen are to believed, “many” is quickly becoming “a handful.” [1] Although numerous reasons could be cited for this decline in …