Mission

Erica Bertram / curriculum, High School, Life and learning, Middle School, Mission

Those of us who attended public school can remember the teachers that were great. The subject may not have been our favorite, but the atmosphere of a class where the teacher loved teaching, was wonderful. Of course, we can also remember the classes where no one, including the teacher, really wanted to be there. In […]

Erica Bertram / High School, Life and learning, Middle School, Mission

Where I live, winter is very long. Usually around this time, I am ready for spring. I buy my seeds and start planning my garden, and I just can’t wait to smell earth. But if I’m not careful, I will start to resent winter and its grayness and I will only love the promise of

Pinnacle of Advent

scioacademy / High School, Life and learning, Mathematics, Mission, Pascal

Our journey with Pascal continues… It seems to be another wink from God that our advent posts peak with our need for a savior. For we’ve lamented in our lack of understanding whether it’s revealed in our frustration with mathematics or our inability to understand creation. We have seen Pascal’s observation: There is a God

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What Frustration Reveals

scioacademy / Life and learning, Mathematics, Mission, Pascal

Our walk through the truths of Pascal continues… …if there be a true religion on earth, the course of all things must tend to it as to a centre. (Pascal, 556) Our own ineptness reveals to us something greater. For it is never more clear to man that he is not god more so

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Erica Bertram / Mission

There comes a moment in the lives of those of us with children, where we, for a fleeting fleshly second, speak into the open air the question, “why do we have to care so much?” One of these moments had arisen in our home recently when we were evaluating the decision to allow a certain