Polluting the Shadows, Part 2
Wilson has the audacity to suggest that our children were made to pollute those shadows. So, what does it mean to pollute shadows?
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Polluting the Shadows, Part 1
Our children belong to God. He has entrusted them to us for a season only so that we might raise them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Rhetoric for the Ages
Practice in the art of rhetoric is what enables Trinitas students to articulate precisely and reason persuasively.
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What Do You Want from Education?
Choosing a school for your child is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. So, what do you want from your child’s education?
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Why Christian Education?
Choosing a school is an important decision. If you want to raise your child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Christian schools are here to help.
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Alumni Spotlight - Mekenzie Petersen
Trinitas alum Mekenzie Petersen ('20) discusses recent academic accomplishments and has her sights set on something greater than attending medical school.
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Children See, Children Do, Part 2
Teaching our children is the duty Christian parents, but it is not the only duty. Counsel must be accompanied by a consistent, though imperfect, example.
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Three Reasons You Should Observe Advent with Your Children
Observing Advent with your children is one small way of preparing their hearts for the miracle of Christmas while redeeming a distinctly Christian tradition.
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College Admissions for Classical Students
While Trinitas does not focus on test scores, we understand how something like the CLT affects students and their college aspirations.
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Which is the Great Commandment in the Law?
Take a look at our priorities, loves, motivations and make certain that we are loving God with our whole being and our neighbors as we love ourselves.
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Strong Men Sing
The natural development of the male voice is by design. We must teach young men to navigate the transition into manhood by refining their singing voices.
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Classical Education Creates Renaissance Men and Women
Classical education is not specialization. Rather it empowers students to become Renaissance men and women, excelling at whatever they put their hands to.
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Why Rush Education?
There is more to being human than getting a job. Be sure to give your children an education that distinguishes the good life from the daily grind.
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Classical Creates Culture
Prospective parents who are attracted to the culture of classical Christian schools are being attracted by the fruit of classical Christian education.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Part 5
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Part 4
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Part 3
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Part 2
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Part 1
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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Lessons From Handbells
Mr. Cowart shares with parents three profound similarities between handbell ringing and the education their child receives at Trinitas.
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The Sound of Summer Ending
The final days leading into the school year should be enjoyed. That is how we will be best prepared to find the proper habits of labor and rest come Fall.
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Five Exercises to Prepare Your Grammar School Student for Returning to School
As summer is winds down, there are a few things parents can do to prepare students’ hearts and minds to return to school in the fall.
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“Summertime, and the Livin’ is Easy”
Summer is almost over. Here's a short, two-part series intended to help you and your student prepare well for the coming school year.
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The Gift of Hate: Teaching Children to Hate the Dark and Love the Light
While relative truth drags the world towards chaos, it is more important than ever for Christians to stand firm for truth and teach our children the same.
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The Gift of Sin: Digging into Your Child’s Sin
We love our children so much that we can fool ourselves into thinking they aren’t little sinners and, instead, make excuses for their behavior.
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The Gift of Dirt: Let Them Get Dirty!
In addition to the lasting educational value from allowing children to get their hands dirty exploring creation, character-building is also happening.
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The Gift of Failure: Embracing Struggle and Failure for Your Children
Healthy, appropriate struggle teaches children problem-solving skills, instills confidence, and develops resiliency.
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The Gift of a World Larger Than They Are: Finding Their Place in the World
One thing we can do for our children is help them understand that the world is much bigger than they are, but we can help them find their place in it.
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Five Perfect Gifts for Children
For intentional parents, here is a list of five perfect gifts for children that are essential for raising “sturdy children” in this age of victim culture.
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Graduation Address to the Class of 2025
In his commencement address to the graduating class of 2025, Dr. Sean Hadley encouraged the seniors to remember their calling and the great books.
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Honor to Whom Honor is Due
After twenty years of teaching in the Grammar School, Mrs. Wendy Phillips is retiring from the Trinitas classroom.
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Six Steps to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten
Here are six steps to prepare your child for kindergarten meant to spark ideas for activities to make learning fun while getting ready for kindergarten.
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Steady and Thoroughgoing Correction (Part 2)
Being faithful to this kind of correction goes beyond a joyful time with your child, it equips him or her to become a man or woman after God’s own heart.
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Steady and Thoroughgoing Correction (Part 1)
Now, we’ll examine correction that addresses patterns of sin or even besetting sins in the lives of our children.
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The Trinitas Family Conference
The only way to find out if a family is like-minded is to sit down face-to-face and ask good questions...thus the Trinitas Family Conference.
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Love of Correction
God requires parents to correct themselves with His word as the standard, but He also requires us to correct our children according to the same standard.
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Why Correction?
The children of Christian parents must be corrected by those parents when they stray from what God’s Word says they ought to be.
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What is Correction?
Good parenting takes lots of tools, not a one-size-fits-all approach. Biblical correction, on the other hand, deals with the root of all problems: sin.
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How to Know Which Christian School is Right for Your Family: Evangelistic vs Covenantal
There are many similarities among Christian schools but also some differences like that between evangelistic and covenantal (or discipleship) schools.
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Three Arguments for Removing Children from Secular Schools
Christian parents with children in secular schools are asking the nearly impossible of their kids and should get them out before they lose their faith.
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Honor Begets Suffering
Faculty address delivered by Miss Cate Price inducting new members into the National Honors Society on December 13, 2024, at Trinitas Christian School.
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Teaching Thankfulness
Imagine a world where God’s people are grateful to God for every good and perfect gift. That world is nigh; you get to participate in bringing it about.
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Forging a New Path
Trinitas and classical Christian education is a course correction in education, the forging of a new path by going back to an old and proven method.
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There is a Method to Our Madness
Trinitas students take music classes K-12th grade as part of the core curriculum to help them read music and to sing the music they read with proficiency.
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Thinking Rightly about College
The chief end of education is inherently theological, as are the necessary means of accomplishing this end.
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Hey, Kids, Be Like Jesus!
Jesus Christ had to grow to accomplish his mission, thus it is necessary for our children to grow to accomplish their God-ordained purpose on this earth.
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The Classical Parent - Part III
Parents in classical Christian schools are dedicated to the role of the Scriptures in the education of their children.
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The Classical Parent - Part II
Students thrive in their pursuit of classical Christian education because classical parents are dedicated to participating in the pursuit with them.
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The Classical Parent - Part I
Dedicated classical Christian parents are not content with the status quo. They happily go against the grain and buck the progressive education system.
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A Reflection on Love
Love is a central theme in many of the stories Trinitas students read and will be a continual theme because it is a constant in the world God designed.
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Hospitality and Healing
In Classical Christian Education, we are restoring hospitality and healing to their rightful place in education and also rejuvenating a Christian culture.
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Finis Initii: Not Departing from the Path
The following is adapted from the Commencement Address delivered by Dr. Clifford Humphrey on May 17, 2024, at Trinitas Christian School.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Obedient
Parents should care that their kids are excelling academically but even more so about how they are behaving at school than what grades they are getting.
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Don’t Send Your Lambs to Slaughter
Does Christ want us to send our young, (mostly) spiritually defenseless children alone into the lair of the enemy in an attempt to convert them?
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A Guiding Principle in Choosing an Education for Children of Christian Families
As a Christian considering how to educate your children, consider Deuteronomy 6:6-9 and ask yourself what should be the goal of your child’s education.
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Inaugural Classical Heritage Tour
The Classical Heritage Tour exposes students to aesthetic experiences and provides a capstone to the classical education they receive at Trinitas.
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Lessons from a Rain Storm
The recent Trinitas FatherSon Camping Trip was a reminder that difficulties and challenges are essential to the growth and development of sturdy young men.
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Community and Fellowship
It is amazing really, to have so many families from different backgrounds come together and, by God’s grace, build a community around the common interests
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The State of Parenting Today
Interview with Keith McCurdy recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live to help parents navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world.
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Entitled or Grateful? Choices Before the Next Generation
Interview with Keith McCurdy recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live to help parents navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world.
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Modern Questions & Classical Answers
Interview with Keith McCurdy recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live to help parents navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world.
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Raising Mature Kids
Interview with Keith McCurdy recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live to help parents navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world.
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Four Reasons Families Leave Trinitas (Part #4)
Trinitas cultivates a foundational work ethic that honors God rather than seeks the instant gratification available in a childhood full of unearned rest.
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Four Reasons Families Leave Trinitas (Part #3)
Trinitas believes that “all that classical stuff” is not useless in the real world, but is actually the most useful; in fact, all that old stuff is what the real world is made of.
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Four Reasons Families Leave Trinitas (Part #2)
Although Trinitas students are strong in math, they are also ahead because they haven’t specialized in one thing but are just as strong on other subjects.
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Excellence vs Perfectionism: Helping Our Students Avoid Idolatry
Classical, Christian schools must have high standards without tempting students toward perfectionism or deriving their worth from their achievements.
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How to Avoid a Culture of Disrespect (and Other Shameful Maladies)
God blesses us with children and tells us to train them up in the way they should go. He tells them to honor and obey their parents.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Neighbors!
We are now in the middle of Thanksgiving - a holiday born of the good intention to set aside a whole day for giving thanks to God for His provision for us.
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Quare Latin?
Let's quit arguing for Latin based on its utility, instead let's consider Latin necessary for a thorough understanding of the Western canon.
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Fortitude
Fortitude is a virtue cultivated in us by great stories that instill virtue in the hearts of young men and women.
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Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
Each morning we tell Trinitas students to “Love God, love your neighbor.” Last week, we put hands and feet to this with a day of community service.
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Ten MORE Practical Tips for Success at Trinitas
To achieve success at Trinitas and experience the fruit of classical Christian education, here are ten more practical tips for success from our teachers.
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Ten Practical Tips for Success at Trinitas
To achieve success at Trinitas and experience the fruit of classical Christian education, here are ten practical tips for success from our teachers.
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On Chess and Classical Christian Education
Chess should be an integral portion of a classical curriculum as the game parallels and uniquely reinforces classical education in all of its stages.
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Ordering the Lives of Our Children
Train up your children in the way they should go. Do not leave them to themselves. Help them find their purpose in God’s created order.
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To Train Up a Child
Train up your children in the way they should go. It isn’t an option. If you want a school that will help you with that, we’ve got your back.
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Seek First the Kingdom of God
Grades are a common form of idolatry at school for students and the teachers but it should be pursuing learning heartily as unto the Lord.
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“What’s the deal with…?”
A new addition to our weekly communication for parents is titled “What’s the deal with…?” and addresses a particular cultural distinctive of Trinitas.
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True Image
As image-bearers, we have a great responsibility to live in a way that tells the truth about who God is and what He does.
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That Whole Parenting Thing
The Bible is the source of the ultimate wisdom for parenting since it reveals who God is, who we are as His redeemed people, and how we can best love Him.
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Of Pigs and Pupils: Fast Food, Modern Education, and the Growth of Classical (Christian) Schools
The classical school approach offers a fundamentally different vision of education that families fed up with a factory approach to learning find compelling.
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Don’t Just Hand Them Over!
Trinitas works hard to keep our students safe, and we believe parents are an integral part of that safety and of the whole educational process.
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Trinitas Welcomes Newest Faculty Members!
Join us in welcoming the newest additions to the Trinitas faculty. We are grateful to have such wonderful people teaching our students this fall.
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Building Community
Trinitas looks to bring our community together to build relationships and get comfortable leaning on each other in this great task of raising our children.
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In Favor of Independence
Trinitas educates students who can participate in every facet of our government so that we remain free and independent of the rule of oppressive tyrants.
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On Boys, Danger, and Dragons
If we men will man up and teach our boys to do the same, we will be working with the grain of creation while helping to establish the Kingdom on earth.
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Getting Your Hands Dirty in the Garden
Cultivating in students a love for learning and a desire to love God and neighbor is a lot like cultivating a garden.
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Pull Them Close This Summer
Teachers are often asked by parents what they can do over the summer to continue their children’s education. Here is all you have to do: pull them close.
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The End of a Thing is Better Than Its Beginning
In Ecclesiastes 7:8, Solomon says that the end of a thing is better than its beginning. In truth, the school year at Trinitas ended even better than it began.
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Academic Humility
When students are anchored in God’s word and sort out truth from lies in everything they study, then they will be cultivating true wisdom in their lives.
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If You Love Me…
The time to train Christians to obey, to keep Christ’s commandments, and thereby prove their love for him, is when they are very young.
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Tribute to Parents
Trinitas parents are drawn together by their like-minded pursuit of classical Christian education for their children.
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Beneath the Surface
One of the primary goals of a classical education is to produce thinking students, students who think clearly and listen carefully.
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The Resurrection and Everyday Life
Christians are people of the Resurrection. How should we live in light of this truth? Put plainly, the Resurrection should change the way we approach life!
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A Father's Resolutions
Practical guidance for Christian parents who aspire to - with God's grace - raise their children in the paideia or nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Changing the Conversation
Trinitas seeks to transfer a way of life to students by giving them the characteristics that make good citizens, parents, neighbors, and worshippers.
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The Wiseman’s Folly: A Reflection on Foolishness and Wisdom
The wise and fortunate man is one who loves God’s law, delights in it, and meditates on it; the foolish man is he who rejects it.
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Classically Educated Parents
Trinitas parents can embark on the classical education journey with their children—the whole family learning together in a community of families.
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Teach Them Diligently for Life
Don’t neglect your duty as a Christian parent. Teach your children diligently the ways of God that they might love God, keep His commandments, and live.
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A Seat at the Table
If we give our children a true education and not progressive indoctrination, Christians will once again lead in public discourse and elsewhere as well.
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Commoners in the King’s Court
Trinitas students are being equipped with the education of a king making them able to do the next right thing when the world seems to be losing its mind.
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The End of Education
The utilitarian lens through which we view the world clouds the way we think about education resulting in the wrong view of education’s end.
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All the World’s a Stage
Drama in classical education from a Christian worldview gives students the opportunity to develop skills and virtue through the performing arts.
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On Sowing and Reaping
God created the world in such a way that our actions have consequences— sowing and reaping. We must teach our children just that.
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Is This Going to be on the Test?
Classical education seeks to impart to students the art and practice of independent thinking.
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Watch Your Language
Teaching Latin and Greek is an essential ingredient of classical education. A classical education without these languages is no classical education at all.
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Three Resolutions for Parenting Christian Children
Christian parents are to raise children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Fear not, the Holy Spirit will help you do God has called you to do.
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Why Recitation Should be Part of Every Child’s Education
Recitation is an important part of classical education. It develops rhetorical skills, provides quick feedback, and challenges the fear of public speaking.
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Forgiveness in Community
Our practice at Trinitas is to keep short accounts with each other so that we can live together in Christian community as a school family.
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Pursuing Humble Academic Excellence
Trinitas students should see pursuing academic excellence not as a means of exalting self but as a means to exalt Christ and display his glory.
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The Education Triumvirate
When parents, the church, and the school are on the same page, the result is an education that forms virtue and points children in the way they should go.
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A Great Day of Giving
Service to others is a Christian duty, and it is nothing new to Trinitas students. The annual LoveThyNeighbor event is the highlight of our fall calendar!
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Building Emotional Muscles
By letting children avoid mistakes, pain, and disappointment in the present, we prevent them from succeeding in the future.
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Children See, Children Do
Children learn best by imitation. What your children see in you and those whom you place them in community with impacts their spiritual formation.
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The Miseducation of America
Miseducation of America explains how progressive education slowly removed Christianity and Western Christian Paideia from schools over the past 100 years.
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Milk to Meat
Parents must see to it that our children are secure in the faith and walking close to God before they go out on their own—eating meat, not stuck on milk.
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It’s Okay to Put Cheese on the Broccoli
Parents have been training their children since the dawn of time to do things they don't like. That is what parents do. It is called parenting.
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Schola Seminar
Students in grades 7-12 and faculty members gather weekly in Schola Seminar to learn, discuss, and pursue wisdom together across a broad range of topics.
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Why You Should Write in Your Books
Annotation, the process of writing notes in the margin of a book while reading, leaves behind a roadmap for yourself or others to follow as they read.
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A Lesson for Labor Day
As Christian parents, we help our children regain a bit of what was lost in the garden when we train them to work joyfully and with diligence.
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An Introduction to Commonplacing
A commonplace book is a repository of the true, good, and beautiful quotes and ideas encountered by a reader.
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A Blessing for Trinitas Graduates
Graduation is a special time in the life of young adults. In the present age, it has become arguably the most important rite of passage into adulthood.
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Remember, The Hand of the Lord is Mighty
At the end of each school year, we hold an Ebenezer ceremony for the graduating seniors where they place their own stones upon the ever-growing monument.
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What Should You Look For In a Christian School? (part III)
Christ-centered means that we teach all subjects as an integrated whole with Scriptures at the center; we want students to develop a biblical worldview.
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What should you look for in a Christian school? (part II)
It is our aim at Trinitas to indoctrinate students in their western heritage by teaching them classical content rooted in the western tradition.
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What Should You Look for in a Christian School?
More than reading, writing, and arithmetic, Trinitas trains students to learn with the “tools of learning” through the three stages of the Trivium.
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Responsibilities in Christian Education
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson is a founding text of the modern classical Christian school movement.
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Setting the Right Markers
The dominant form of grades used in schools is not ideal for a classical Christian school because constructive feedback is better than graded evaluation.
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Did Jesus Receive Handwriting Grades?
We need a different way of talking about grades. The language of mastery is better than the language of “grades” to truly educate students.
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Imagine a World Without Grades. You Can Do It If You Try.
The modern grade scale is a fairly recent development in education and not one that has a long history of success or stability.
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Long Live Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was a fourth-century Church father known for his powerful and eloquent preaching and public speaking.
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Worshippers in Training
If we want our children to really know the God we love and serve, then it is our responsibility to model that to them in everyday moments.
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Tasty Travel
The Jr./Sr. Aesthetics trip is integral to Trinitas education. Students travel to cultural centers to experience art, music, architecture, and government.
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In Pursuit of Diligence
Any worthwhile pursuit — the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty included — is best accomplished through good old fashioned hard work.
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Socratic Dialogue, Trinitas, and You
Can Socratic Dialogue, an ancient Greek teaching method used at Trinitas and centered on the pursuit and apprehension of Truth be used in parenting?
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Connecting the Dots
Contemplating a Trinitas education from beginning to end is worthwhile for thoughtful parents serious about the education they want for their children.
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Distinctly Different, Part II
The three main ways a Trinitas education differs sharply from government schools and other Christian schools and then explore the reasons why it matters.
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Distinctly Different, Part I
Three main ways Trinitas education differs sharply from government schools and other Christian schools and then explore the reasons why it even matters.
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Faithful Parenting
One generation’s faithfulness before God forms an avenue of blessing for succeeding generations.
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The Duties of Parents
In 'The Duties of Parents' by J. C. Ryle are seventeen gospel-centered directives for Christian parenting that are practical and rooted in common sense.
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Envisioning the Future
Parents who have acquired a God-honoring vision for their children must settle upon the actions steps necessary to see that vision to fulfillment.
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Resolve Like A Puritan
The start of a new year is a time for making resolutions. We’d all do well to consider making resolutions like a modern-day puritan.
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Read Broadly
Reading broadly first forces you to read critically. Reading broadly also inoculates against error. Finally, reading broadly does not require agreement.
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Lessons from a Marshwiggle
Reading good literature aids in the formation of a child’s moral imagination enabling them to embrace right and resist wrong as they mature.
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Trinitas Traditions
Trinitas traditions serve to strengthen our community while forming the affections of our students.
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How Classical are You?
Classical Christian schools like Trinitas differ from other private school choices and certainly from the government schools in several significant ways.
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Morning Meeting: A Liturgy for Daily Life
Because routines shape our orientation to the world, Trinitas starts the day with our own routine to orient and shape our way of being for the day ahead.
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Reading, Writing, and…Dancing?
Trinitas students are taught reading, writing, and dancing so that they can glorify God with their minds and bodies by becoming socially graceful.
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Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!
Trinitas trains young people toward lives of personal and social responsibility so they can impact their neighbors for the kingdom of God.
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Preparing Our Children For Babylon, Part III
Christian parents must avoid easy parenting tips and rather pursue biblical teaching in a certain context to prepare their children for Babylon.
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Preparing Our Children For Babylon, Part II
Christian parents must avoid easy parenting tips and rather pursue biblical teaching in a certain context to prepare their children for Babylon.
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Preparing Our Children For Babylon, Part I
Christian parents must avoid easy parenting tips and rather pursue biblical teaching in a certain context to prepare their children for Babylon.
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And Piety for All
Christian parents must train their children in piety - the duty, love, and respect owed to God, parents, and communal authorities past and present.
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Pursuing Wisdom
Pursuing wisdom is hard; making right moral choices is hard; acquiring skills offered is hard. Attempts to make it easy will leads to a kind of poverty.
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Accreditation Matters
Trinitas has been associated with the ACCS since the school's founding over twenty years ago and has been an accredited member for over half that time.
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Calculus for the Rest of Us
Trinitas demonstrates to students the importance of mathematics in the broader western culture, and in particular, to philosophy through teaching Calculus.
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Graduation Address to the Class of 2021
Alumnus and teacher, Mr. Colby Gilley, leads the class of 2021 on a journey that revisits their past, ponders their present, and challenges their future.
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Classical Christian Alumni are Better Prepared for College and Life - Part V
Alumni of classical Christian schools have a broad, liberal arts education that makes them more influential in society than alumni from other schools.
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Classical Christian Alumni are Better Prepared for College and Life - Part IV
Classical Christian alumni are people who know how to think and how to love their neighbors. They are independent thinkers.
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Classical Christian Alumni are Better Prepared for College and Life - Part III
Classical Christian schools seem to be turning out graduates who hold conservative and traditional positions on the things that matter in life.
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Classical Christian Alumni are Better Prepared for College and Life – Part II
An additional benefit of Classical Christian education is that graduates are well-prepared for not only college but also for a life well-lived.
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Classical Christian Alumni are Better Prepared for College and Life – Part I
An additional benefit of Classical Christian education is that graduates are well-prepared for not only college but also for a life well-lived.
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Classical Christian Alumni Continue in the Faith
Christian parents' highest aim is to see their children walking with the Lord, but at some point, a child has to take ownership of his own faith.
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Is There a Better Path?
The goal for a child traveling the classical Christian education path is to become a virtuous human being whose life is completely surrendered to Christ.
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Give Students a Community in Which They Can Thrive
Two elements in the classical Christian model are a structured and orderly learning environment and a Christ-centered community of like-minded families.
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How Do We Accomplish the Goals of Classical Christian Education?
Classical schools offer imitable teachers, a high academic standard, and a structured environment in a Christ-centered community of like-minded families.
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Why the Goals of Classical Christian Education are Good for the World
Classical Christian education prepares students to live a good life for the sake of God, neighbor, and self.
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What is the Goal of Classical Christian Education?
The end goal of classical Christian education is a virtuous human being whose entire life is surrendered to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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How to Keep the Dog from Eating Your Homework, Conclusion
Since schools committed to providing a good education rely on some homework, it is important for teachers and families to deal with the homework question.
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Loving Neighbor is Loving God
It is fine for Christians to tell God we love Him; we should do it every day. But it is better for us to show Him we love Him by obeying His commandments.
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For Just Such a Time as This
The standards for Christian character and academic diligence are high in classical Christian education to prepare students for just such a time as this.
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Following the Saints
All baptized Christians are members of the Church universal, along with those who have gone before us and will come after us. That membership is eternal.
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A Root of Selflessness
Love of self is one of those besetting sins common to all of us and out of which springs many sins that are merely symptoms of selfishness.
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Where We Went Wrong
None of us will be perfect parents. Make good decisions and choices now so you aren’t wondering later where we went wrong.
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Where Art Thou, O Courage?
Each time children embrace a difficult task, they practice courage and build upon their ability to be courageous in the future.
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Who’s Your Role Model?
The role models children adopt for themselves forming how they view the world and live in it.
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The Value of Struggle
Struggle is among the most important elements in the learning process. Learning any new thing is hard work and requires some pain if it is to be done well.
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Vipers in Diapers
As Christian parents raising our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, we should cultivate a proper view of Original and Remaining Sin.
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How to Rule a Kingdom
Elements of classical education can come across as impractical while progressive or modern education sometimes seems more, well, practical.
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Education Fit for a King
Trinitas is committed to educating kings and queens with Christ-centered, classical education who will rule in God's kingdom and serve King Jesus.
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Hope Causes Change
The Christian faith is not based on karma or coercion but in belief in the truth and effectiveness of Christ's death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
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There is Still Hope
God’s people keep from falling into despair because our God is “a very present help in trouble” (Ps 46:1). He will neither leave us nor forsake us.
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Buy the Truth
The only way to grow our faith and guard our souls in this difficult age is to consume God’s word daily allowing it to mold and shape our affections.
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A Call to Faith in Troubled Times
This difficult season has multiplied our children's anxiety. How can we go beyond bringing them normalcy right now to actually increasing their faith?
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Building Eulogy Virtues
The role great literature can play in giving our eulogists something to talk about should not be underestimated.
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The Voices in Your Head, Part 2
Trinitas graduates are inducted into an association that includes not only their teachers but the assembly of the wise since the beginning of history.
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The Voices in Your Head, Part 1
Trinitas graduates are inducted into an association that includes not only their teachers but the assembly of the wise since the beginning of history.
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The Old Stories
We long for the new and spurn the old, yet the only way to know ourselves is to look backward. We must go to the old stories and learn from them.
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Sweet & Sour Quarantine
As quarantine restrictions begin to ease, we should be able to start making some observations about how our weeks of sequestering have affected us.
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In Pursuit of Vita Bona
Christian classical education is education that pursues vita bona, even at the expense of peace and affluence.
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The Downside of Internet Based Instruction, Part II
Technology offers us a tool, and we are using it sparingly, cautiously. Three detrimental effects particularly concern me as an administrator and teacher: passivity, shortened attention span, and diminished imagination.
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The Downside of Internet-Based Instruction
Three detriments loom large for students receiving internet-based instruction: passivity, shortened attention span, and diminished imagination.
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Teach at Home Tips from a Teacher, Part 2
Trinitas Junior Kindergarten teacher Sarah Hadley shares more ideas she has found helpful while running an organized classroom in her dining room.
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Teach at Home Tips from a Teacher, Part 1
Trinitas Junior Kindergarten teacher Sarah Hadley shares ideas she has found helpful while running an organized classroom in her dining room.
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Will Your Child Continue in the Faith as an Adult?...
The most important aim of Christian parents is to see their children walking with the Lord. Have you ever considered what role the school plays in that?
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The Good Soil
Children need good soil if they are going to thrive. The environment they grow up in—their home, church, and school—is for them what soil is for plants.
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Season of Wonder
Two chief goals of classical education are to help students become lifelong learners and to give them the tools they need to be lifetime learners.
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Late to the Table
The obstacles are many for a student coming into a classical Christian school as late as ninth grade, but the rewards are high.
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A Case for Cloistering
In this age of mega schools and assembly-line education, Christian children can benefit from a cloister-like setting of a small classical Christian school.
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Classical Christian Students Have a Ball!
Classical Christian education is determined to repair the ruins of our first parents—inside the classroom and out—and to have a ball doing it.
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The Parents’ Place in Education
Finding a school that reinforces what your child is learning at home and at church is crucial to her long term mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
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Protect Your Children from Predators
The internet in general and the gaming companies specifically are doing very little to protect our children from becoming victims. It is up to us.
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The Dangers of Distracted Driving…or Studying
Because of the nearly irresistible distraction smartphones create in our lives, we must learn self-control and help our children do the same.
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Thankful to the Core
One mark of God’s people should be thankfulness. If we want our children to know that every good and every perfect gift is from above, we must teach them.
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Technology in Education
Parents often ask about classical education’s lack of emphasis on STEM. Recent research addresses the lack of technology in the classical classroom.
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Trinitas 2019 Commencement Address
Former Trinitas teacher presented the Commencement Address to the graduating Class of 2019.
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Classical Cultivates Virtue Through Perspective
Classical education is in large part about nurturing virtuous human beings with a steady diet of the good, old stuff.
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Persecution via Legislation
The Equality Act takes aim at religious freedom itself. If adopted, it would partially repeal federal law (aka. the Religious Freedom Restoration Act).
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Hands-on Education: A Feast for the Eyes, Hands, Mind, Feet . . .
For children, a new experience is a wide-open portal to depths they haven’t even thought about exploring yet.
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What About Dating In High School?
An imagined conversation between former Trinitas teacher Joshua Gibbs and a student about whether students should date in high school.
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Lessons from a Dirt Pile
Boys need to feel their strength, taste their own blood from a busted lip without getting mad, and fail miserably - then get up and charge the hill again.
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Don’t Waste Your Commute
Using travel to school wisely can reduce school-related stress, build habits for academic success, and create time for healthy play and family activities.
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A Few Ideas for Teaching Stewardship to Children
Your children will someday rule God’s world. Teach them to faithfully steward their little kingdoms in preparation to faithfully rule when they are grown.
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How to Know If Your Child is Ready for Kindergarten
Standards for kindergarten-readiness at public and private schools vary widely. So how do we define kindergarten-ready at Trinitas?
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Why High School Seniors Should Write and Defend a Thesis
Defending thesis papers is a requirement in most classical schools and one way to re-train the next generation that civil discourse is good for society.
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Because You Want More for Your Children
You want a school that is in lockstep with your church and home, a school that teaches your children how to be Christians out in the wide world.
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A Few Things I Am Not Saying About Smartphones
Thinking about the dangers of children having unlimited access to smartphones, here a few things I am not saying about our children and their smartphones.
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Time is Money: Why Your Kid Can’t Put His Phone Down
Children are targeted by online advertisers; their attention and time are bought, sold, and traded like so many commodities.
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Lonely in a Crowd: Smartphones, the Internet, and Isolation
Parenting teenagers in the era of smartphones may be different, but it is still parenting, and we will still answer to God for how we do it. Engage.
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More Fun with Phones
One of the discouraging trends in our society today among teens attributed to addictive smartphone use is the failing mental health of our teenagers.
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The World at Their Fingertips
Since the advent of smartphones in 2007, children have had the power of the internet and everything it brings with it right at their fingertips.
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To Game or Not to Game?
Based on research and doctor orders — and what they saw with their own eyes — a Trinitas family decided to keep video games out of their children’s lives.
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Respect Everyone
We desire graduates who understand the nature of humanity, choose is love God and neighbor, and who live accordingly, respecting everyone.
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A Remedy for Shadows, Eroding Foundations, and General Madness
If you agree that the world has gone mad, take matters into your own hands: give your child a good classical Christian education.
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Small School History Lesson
In the world of mega schools and the degradation of Christian and American values, small schools have an opportunity to re-humanize the American student.
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The Classical Christian Difference
Sending your child to a Christian school is not the whole education solution because all Christian education is not the same.
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The Small Things Matter
It is important for Christians to have edifying weddings and enduring marriages, but we must also bear God’s image well in smaller and even mundane acts.
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Trinitas Elevator Speech
Trinitas is more than just one more school option among many in our area — we’re doing something completely different than any other school around.
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Some Other Reasons Handwriting Matters
Trinitas is a different sort of school. An example of that is the importance we place upon handwriting.
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The National Report Card
Trinitas' academic standards are higher than other schools in our area. A big part of America’s education woes come from expecting too little from children.
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Thinking Ahead
Classical Christian education is a forward-looking venture as our graduates will become the stabilizing forces in the church, the family, and the state.
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Four Reasons Families Leave Trinitas (Part #1)
It is human nature to some extent, for people to get interested in a thing, even convinced about a thing, then lose interest over time.
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Making the Grade
Grades are intended to measure and report on a student’s performance on a given assignment in time. They are useful for that task, but far from perfect.
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You’re Studying What?
A good classical education forms the whole person and sparks a lifelong desire to learn. It gives students the tools needed to learn any subject.
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Where Have All the Graduates Gone?
Graduates from good classical schools are among the best-educated students in the country—Trinitas included—and colleges know it, even secular colleges.
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Alumni and the Church
When the family, the church, and the school are training, preaching, and teaching the same message, young people don’t leave the faith.
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Math and the Classical Student, Part II
Classical students may start out behind students in any specialized field but will catch up and move ahead because they know how to think and learn.
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Math and the Classical Student, Part I
In the classical education world, specifically, STEM has not been the mantra, and for that intentional omission classical schools are sometimes criticized.
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Knights Don’t Surrender
Trinitas trains students who take up the cause of the widow and the orphan and the poor and the needy and the weak and the defenseless and the oppressed.
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Saved for Life
The world should see something different in God’s people, something undeniable. We are saved to live abundant life the unconverted world cannot imagine.
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Trinitas On YouTube
Please subscribe to the Trinitas YouTube channel. It is our gift to you, neatly packaged on the internet, with a pretty, red, technological bow atop.
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Starting Off on the Right Foot
At Trinitas we want every day to go well, so we begin every day with a short time of devotion and worship we call Morning Meeting.
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Reminders for Trinitas Fans
You can find a thorough explanation of what it means to represent Trinitas as a fan in the Family Handbook, but I want to give you a few quick reminders.
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More Father Famine
Men, be husbands to your wives and fathers to your children. Open the Word and find out what it means to be a godly husband and father.
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Father Famine
Our culture is truly in the midst of a father famine. We—all of us, the whole culture—have little vision for fathers or fathering.
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In Defense of Defense
Trinitas aims to graduate students who can think on their feet, especially concerning a topic they have researched for a year.
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For the Love of Community
I have been inspired recently to extol the virtues of community by the many parents and students at Trinitas who work behind the scenes to support each other and the school.
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Paideia of God at Home
If parents live their faith every minute of every day there will be a paideia of God in the home; the beginning of training children in the faith.
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A Thing of Beauty
On a Trinitas aesthetics trip, the main mission is to discover beauty that we can’t see at home. We search for music, dance, art, architecture, and food.
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Introducing Chrysostom: An Oratory Competition
Chrysostom focuses on persuasive writing and speaking which is not only part of our western heritage, but also part of fulfilling the Trinitas Vision.
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Silver Tongues of the West
Students in classical schools like Trinitas are taught excellent oratory skills in hopes of reclaiming and restoring the best of western civilization.
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Hey, What Kind of Place Is This, Anyway?
For parents considering options for their child(ren)’s education, here are some distinctions that make Trinitas a rather not-so-ordinary sort of school.
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Keeping Short Accounts
We address offenses between members of the Trinitas community quickly so that sin does not linger, giving root to bitterness.
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In Pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty on the Stage
Beauty expressed on stage includes a faithful representation of the antithesis to truth and goodness so that real truth and goodness may be better known.
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In Pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
If we meditate on and even pursue things that are true, good, and beautiful, we will be cultivating virtue in our students and teachers.
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And Beautiful Music for All
With few exceptions, God has given us all the gift of voice, and He expects us to praise Him with it by creating and then beautifully singing songs to God.
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New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s resolutions show we recognize faults in ourselves and want to correct them. Most New Year’s resolutions are broken within a few weeks.
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Coming Messiah
Celebrating Advent reaffirms that we are God’s people who live in the middle of the tension between the already and the not yet!
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Lessons from Old Books
Reading old books teaches a way of being that forms virtue in students so that they not only think right, but they also act right.
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What Makes a Good Education?
To be educated is to be led out of ignorance and into knowledge by way of understanding that produces wisdom. Such is classical Christian education.
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On the Nature of Servant Hours
One of the chief goals of servant hours at Trinitas is to cultivate a lifestyle of Christian service in our students.
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A Little Sanity, Please!
We are about the business of teaching generations of Christians how to think and learn for themselves.
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Why Study Greek - Part II
The benefits of learning Greek as a tool to sharpen one's mental abilities cannot be overstated.
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Why Study Greek - Part I
Trinitas is frequently asked why we teach "dead languages". We teach both Latin and Greek and believe to do otherwise would be less than classical.
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What Were You Looking For?
Headmaster Ron Gilley recalls what it was that brought his family to Trinitas and how the decision changed their family forever.
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Leaving Children to Themselves
God ordered the world this way so that parents would pass knowledge, understanding, and wisdom to children who desperately need it.
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Redeeming Time: The Past
When thinking of the past, we find ourselves in one of two precarious positions: veneration or disdain.
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Redeeming Time: The Present
Be faithful in the present moment—in every day that can be called “today”—but remember whose faithfulness it is that saves and heals. Rest in the Lord.
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Redeeming Time: The Future
We spend a lot of time thinking about our future, but redeeming the future requires preparing for the future.
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Life's Chief Labor - Final Post
A man’s improvement in the home comes through reorientation of his heart and habits.
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How Trinitas Reinvigorated My Idealist Nature
Teaching at Trinitas has reinvigorated my Christian educator idealist nature. It has helped me to reimagine what I once lost, an ideal teaching and class environment.
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Thankful for the Helmet
The graduation cap, a fitting picture of the armor of our day, could be an analogy to a classical and Christ-centered education.
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Life’s Chief Labor Part III
A man’s improvement in the home comes through reorientation of his heart and habits.
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Life's Chief Labor, Part II
A man’s improvement in the home comes through reorientation of his heart and habits.
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Studying the Greek Gods
Greek myths are not only good stories for they contain in them a way of understanding the world that should be reckoned with by any thoughtful Christian.
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The Right Questions for The Force Awakens
Trinitas students gather, eat popcorn, watch movies, and then spend time discussing the ways these films wrestle with the Gospel.
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Life's Chief Labor
A man’s improvement in the home comes through reorientation of his heart and habits.
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Singing the Psalms
The human voice is unique among God's creations. Singing psalms is not only practice for eternity; it is a declaration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Tips for Growing Readers
There are so many reasons for our children to be strong readers, not the least of them to be able to fluently read and understand the Scriptures.
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