Many students of literature and theology believe that quality education is outside of their reach. Costly tuition and the busy demands of daily life can hinder your pursuit of the things that make your heart sing.
And if you do get into a course, dry presentations can make the most inspiring subjects seem bland and lifeless, converting joy into drudgery. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Wonder can be a wellspring of delight in our souls. But those waters need to be refreshed regularly if they are to continue to flow. Our courses take you on journeys that refresh the heart as well as the mind.
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
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While a brilliant scholar, he masterfully uses analogies and real world experience to make difficult concepts accessible on each student’s level. His genius is evident in every class, and on a multitude of topics. The teaching materials are well organized and provide the grounds for future inquiry. The only regret one might have after attending Dr. Johnson’s course is if you can’t take them all.
Studying under Dr. Johnson’s teaching over some years, in several courses, has been a delight, a challenge, and an experience I highly recommend. His knowledge is wide and thorough and he brings an ability to communicate ideas to students from younger to elder years. He is able to help one see and apply deeper truth to current times through even seemingly “just stories.” Ancient wisdom comes alive in his teaching.
Junius Johnson is one of the best professors I have ever encountered. He is deeply knowledgeable and qualified, but also uses humor and a sense of play to foster a collaborative and engaging learning environment — all while pushing his students to do and be their best.
Simply put, Junius Johnson is the best Latin teacher I have ever experienced in my many years of supervising education. He is a true scholar of the Latin language from the classical period to the neo-Latin present; he has success teaching every age and skill level. Junius is compassionate with those who are less gifted than he, but still manages to stretch his students in a friendly and inviting manner. I wholeheartedly recommend him to you as your teacher. Trust me, the encounter will be memorable.
“It is very easy to ask Christians perplexing questions, because from the outside Christ’s mysteries appear to be mere paradoxes, and it is very difficult to solve them at this level. (The attempt leads to false apologetics.) The chief concern here, rather, should be to awaken in the questioner an […]
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Add Spoken Latin to Your Language Ability It’s a simple truth: Latin is a language, and was spoken long before it was ever written down. The language developed with an eye (or ear) to oral communication, and this has been its main use for most of its life. To really […]
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Understanding Latin from the Inside Out Much of Latin seems counter-intuitive to English-speaking students. Seemingly arbitrary and very difficult features of the language like cases, word order, and the incredible number of verb forms not only make the language difficult to learn, they also take a major toll on student […]
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Languages Were Made to Be Spoken The student of French of Spanish comes home on the first day having learned to say a few simple phrases. From the first moments in the classroom, they are beginning to speak in another language, taking the step towards thinking with a foreign mind. […]
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Rethinking the Middle Ages “Sadly, however, it is not serious historians who, for the most part, form the historical consciousness of their times; it is bad popular historians, generally speaking, and the historical hearsay they repeat or invent, and the myths they perpetuate and simplifications they promote, that tend to […]
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A 28 Day Advent Devotional “You can never lose or forget joy if you become joy.” Junius Johnson, Reflection on White Christmas It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Advent is the season of wonder, of magic, of childlike longing. It is a time of dragons and unicorns, even […]
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A Guide to Wonder in Preaching “And finally let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it […]
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The Path to Better Latin Reading Ability It’s time (at last!) to read Latin Most of those who study a Modern language are studying it in order to be able to speak it, and so they focus on words and expressions that will help them get around a country, have […]
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You CAN Go Deeper Into Your Faith The message of Christian salvation is simple, such that it can be grasped by anyone anywhere. And yet the faith itself is not: because we seek to know a God who surpasses all categories, we are met with perplexing claims at every turn: […]
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