Choral Methods for Middle School

I retired after 34 years of teaching secondary choral music. It was a bit unexpected, but at the last moment, in a financial and familial sense, it became clear it was the right decision. It was painful to accept leaving the students, the program, the classroom, the profession. What does one do after 34 years…

The writer C. S. Lewis, a devout agnostic in his youth, became convinced of the claims of faith only after a protracted struggle, the outcome of which left him “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” The ultimate cause of Lewis’ change of heart became the title of his autobiography as well: against…

  Isn’t it strange that princes and kingsand clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people like you and me Are builders for eternity? Each is given a bag of tools, a shapelessmass, a book of rules, and each must make ‘ere life is flown a stumbling blockor a stepping-stone. Poem by R. Lee Sharpe…