I lost a friend to complications from COVID-19 this week. Tim Russell was a large, massive teddy bear of a man with a giant-sized intellect and a heart to match. He loved Christian education, and had …
Consider It All Joy
I am not an expert on virtual schooling. There is no such person. Virtual schooling is something different from online education, which has existed for a while. Virtual schooling, or at least the way …
God of All
I love living in the U.S. I love my laptop. I love Netflix and Spotify. I love my truck. I’m really grateful God put me here in this place in this time. When I think back on all the other eras of …
Worth It
People often ask me whether Grace, or any other private Christian school, is worth it. That’s a fair question. After all, and as I’ve said many times before, educating our children is one of the …
Graduate-Level Parenting
As Ashley and I are nearing the end of “in-house” parenting and the “empty nest” phase of life, I’ve been reflecting a lot on our parenting over the years: what we did well and wrong, what were my …
A New Home
In the years I’ve been the head of school at Grace, there’s one phenomenon that strikes me as somewhat shocking at the beginning of every school year: the difference between an incoming sixth grader …