Chris' Collections

The Best Shoulder warm up / injury prevention (No Equipment)

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 12 May 2014 19:25:00 +0000

Standing Abs

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Gonna try this on the days i don't go to Curves...although I may have to work up to this number of reps!

AIM: Multichurch training institute

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:59:00 +0000

Nearer My God to Thee for 9 Cellos

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Quilt in a Day Melon Patch

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:45:00 +0000

Storyframes: Jen McManus

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:32:00 +0000

Pray for Eritrea

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Ian and Larissa

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Hallelujah!

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:45:00 +0000

Good message

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:37:00 +0000

HT: Pyromaniacs

I always wondered about those fortune cookies...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:22:00 +0000

HT:SA

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:16:00 +0000

G.O.S.P.E.L. from Humble Beast Records on Vimeo.

A rerun, just in time for Father's Day

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:37:00 +0000

Support a young musician....

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Mike Rood: jazz guitarist. He is amazing! Check out his music here: http://mikerood.com/fr_home.cfm And then, order a copy of his new CD.

Sun happening

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:52:00 +0000

HT: JT

An album I am looking forward to...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:00 +0000

Shallow Small Group...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:43:00 +0000

HT: TC

The Hobbit is coming- Hurrah!

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:31:00 +0000

HT: Carolyn, with whom I would love to go see this movie when it comes out!

Every life has a story

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:25:00 +0000

HT: TC

Fight where it counts...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:09:00 +0000

HT: TC

Because this is too good not to post...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:51:00 +0000

HT: Joshua Harris

Solar Death Ray

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:44:00 +0000

I am glad my children never thought of this...

HT: TC

A football highlight...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:27:00 +0000

I don't usually post football highlights here: as a matter of fact, this is a first. But this is an amazing run! (Thanks to TC for posting it!)

More on myth...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:15:00 +0000

A good myth, like a good map, enables the wanderer to survive, perhaps even to flourish, in the wilderness. To this end, classical education, like Hebrew education, carefully preserves the best myths within its tradition and insists that each new generation of students learn these myths, imprisoning them in their heart...[O]ne's chances of survival in a wilderness are greater when one is not alone...Myths provide each member of society with something dignify and lend coherence to his life, as well as something of quality he can share with the other members of the community...
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education, pp.29-30

The uncharted wilderness of mythopoeic imagination...

noreply@blogger.com (MagistraCarminum) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:20:00 +0000

I have experienced one of those lovely confluences in my reading this week. One of those times when two separate and seemingly unrelated things form a new whole in my little brain. First, here is a lovely quote from David Hicks:

It has become almost commonplace to divide ancient consciousness thus between the logos and the mythos, but when fully understood, this division is recognized as timeless-- a precondition, as it were, of the human mind. No one exists who does not in some measure possess these complementary defenses against an unintelligible and hostile world. The mythos represents man's imaginative and, ultimately, spiritual effort to make this world intelligible; the logos sets forth his rational attempt to do the same. What is not hedged off in the severely symmetrical German garden of reason belongs to the uncharted wilderness of mythopoeic imagination-- well, perhaps not entirely uncharted, for even the most rational man spends most of his life wandering in this wilderness, learning its ways and doing his best to follow whatever rudimentary maps come to hand...
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education, p.29

This put me in mind of something recently read by Paul Tripp:

The second thing that distinguished Adam and Eve from the rest of creation [after the fact that we were created to be revelation receivers] was that they were created to be interpreters. people are meaning-makers; we have been created with the marvelous ability to think. We are always organizing, interpreting and explaining what is going on inside us and around us...When we say that God designed human beings to be interpreters, we are getting to the heart of why human being do what they do. Our thinking conditions our emotions, our sense of identity, our view of others, our agenda for the solution of our problems, and our willingness to receive counsel from others. That is why we need a framework for generating valid interpretations that help us respond to life appropriately. only the words of the Creator can give us that framework.
~Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives), pp.41, 43

In some mythopoeic way, this gets to the heart of why I teach. Since we are built to be interpreters, and we search for meaning, it seems important to guide the young in that important search. What a calling it is to teach! (And what a lovely word: mythopoeic...)