A new piece arguing that any desire for cultural literacy must include a commitment to scriptural literacy too.

To deny our children this is to deny them a stake in the aesthetic, ethical and literary landscape into which they are born, and that remains their rightful inheritance. Without this, our children have merely a technical connection to their past, an intellectual and social rupture which only loosens the connection to the present, a cultural listlessness that provides few navigation points for a generation trying to work out its own accounts of the good, the true and the beautiful.

 

Click here to read the rest of the article over at Unherd.

 

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Welcome to Outside In, a blog first started back in 2009 and which has been revived to collect together the various things I have been involved with more recently. You’ll find some newer stuff that has generally appeared elsewhere, my old archive of work on education, politics, and culture, as well as a few other tidbits too. Take a look around!

I am a Christian… so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory

J.R.R. Tolkien