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Finding Your Name With Flannery O’Connor

I never cared for my name until, when I was around 10 years old my family was having dinner talking about where their names came from and what they meant. We all went around talking about what our names meant until it got to me. My aunt looked it up and Micah meant “one who is like God.” After that I didn’t think about my name until in my junior year in theology class we read “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Conner. In O’Conner’s short story…

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A Charge to Parents

What a joy it was to see so many of you at our 2024 convocation service last week.  We are hopeful that more and more of our families will join us each year as we seek to begin our school year by asking for the Lord’s blessing.  It was an evening of beautiful singing and prayer.  We were also blessed by a message from Rev. Tim Goodwin who is the Director of Operations at The Geneva School, a classical Christian school in Manhattan.  Tim spoke...

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Memorial Day Proclamation: President Ronald Reagan, 1987

A Proclamation: Any American who has ever listened to a bugler sound Taps, the last salute, whether on a green and grassy hillside, a muddy field halfway around the world, or a lonely tarmac stateside or anywhere freedom is cherished and defended, knows exactly why we set aside a special day each year to honor those who have died for our country and to pray for permanent peace. We do so for the sons and daughters of our land who have perished in the cause of liberty…

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Thanksgiving Proclamation: President James Madison, 1815

No people ought to feel greater obligations to celebrate the goodness of the Great Disposer of events, and of the destiny of nations, than the people of the United States. His kind providence originally conducted them to one of the best portions of the dwelling place allotted for the great family of the Human race. He protected and cherished them, under all the difficulties and trials to which they…

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Convocation Greeting

Our purpose tonight, through worship and thanksgiving, is to rededicate ourselves to that noble, God-given calling. It’s only right and fitting, then, to remind ourselves WHAT that calling is, and THE PURPOSE for which we’re assembled here tonight. To do that I’ll read the school’s mission statement: “Chapel Field’s mission is to partner with parents to cultivate…

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Convocation: Litany of Supplication

Lord God, we pray for our students; for our pre-k and elementary students whose young minds and souls need the good soil of a godly education to lay strong roots for a life of faithfulness. For our junior high students; for their growth and maturity, for minds furnished and equipped to serve you, and for our high school students, that they may become godly young men and women whose chief ambition is to live for your glory. Grant them all a blessed year in which each student grows in wisdom and stature and holiness. Guard them from the idolatrous delusions…

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Quote: What is Classical Education?

A classical education is primarily concerned with the right reordering of the student’s affections, teaching them to enjoy good things, teaching them to hate wicked things, teaching them to love most what is most worthy of their love. A classical education is also concerned with giving students what…

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Washington's Orders, July 1776

"The time is now near at hand which must [...] determine, whether Americans are to be free men…" This July 4th, join us in remembering George Washington's orders to the Continental Army in anticipation of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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