Christine Norvell
Christine Norvell lives and works in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, as a humanities teacher and as the Upper School Dean for Sager Classical Academy. She’s a senior contributor for The Imaginative Conservative and has also written for The University Bookman, Circe Institute, and StoryWarren. Norvell is also the author of Till We Have Faces: A Reading Companion.
Articles by Christine Norvell
Keeping A Culture: A Review of Thoroughness and Charm
Classroom culture may develop accidentally, but the truth is that a neutral classroom does not exist. Although her apologia is intended for classical Christian educators, Gerth speaks to all teachers
A Challenge in Charity: A Review of Deep Reading
To counter dogmatic worldviews, we should read prudently and widely across time periods and cultures and not avoid difficult content because of fear.
Work and Leisure: A Pieper Primer
I am convinced that the busyness of our age detracts from our ability to see the worthy work we do, to see ourselves as whole persons. Filling our days does…
A Journey to Right Worship: A Review of Learning to Love
I was encouraged by Sosler and all the many ways he connected love and knowledge to the journey that a rightly ordered education invites students to take. The infilling of…
Devotion to Whole Education: Booker T. Washington
I think, I know, that Washington exemplified a whole-hearted devotion to his students. He was concerned, as I am, to educate the whole person of the student, not merely to…
Teaching Banned Books: Huck Finn
The censorship of slavery no longer dictates Huck’s morality. Unlike Tom, Huck has begun to question his society’s standards, to weigh and consider what is just and right, and I…