What is This Classical Life? A weblog about all the beautiful things in life, like books, food and community. It is written by Kristen, a newly-minted Memphian who is married to Michael and mother to two school-aged girls.
Why This Classical Life? Why not? The domain was bought a long time ago, the name came out of Michael's classics background and a love for WBEZ's This American Life.
In Which I am a Curmudgeon: I find the elf on the shelf trend incompatible with an incarnational Christmas.
Parenting, the Gospel & Moral Therapeutic Deism: What's best for our kids and what's best for the kingdom of God generally aren't mutually exclusive.
Be Kind: On which I reflect on how much better it can be to offer kindness and grace rather than unsolicited advice.
On Storytelling: Some of our best stories might not have a place on a blog.
Give Them Grace: A book review in which I assert that the author is espousing less grace than she believes by talking to children as unbelievers.
sure would appear so to me…
“knows the military?”
despises the military is more like it.
the phone, the phone is ringing! the phooooooooone, we’ll be right there! the phone, the phone is ringing! there’s a sleeping child in trouble, there’s a sleeping child in trouble, there’s a sleeping child in trouble somewhere!