During my tenure at Cambridge (2011-2021), I recall coming across a very strange word in one of George MacDonald’s 19th century novels (entitled Paul Faber, Surgeon). That word was nephelococcygia (pron. neh-feh-low-kok-sih-jee-ah), which shows up abruptly in the context of MacDonald’s narrative comments about the role of imagination in humanity’s universal search for God.
Read MoreIn the early years of Cambridge, we were captured by C.S. Lewis’s confidence that our ability to know and trust God was not at the mercy of wishful thinking of how we hoped the world could be. God was not asking us to put “blind” confidence in ideas and concepts that we found difficult to reconcile with the world as we had come to know it. Rather, we heard an invitation from God, through the prophet Isaiah, to “Come let us reason together.”
Read MoreHave you sometimes wondered why Cambridge School decided to make the study of history its basis for the curriculum? You may have noticed the well thought out scope and sequence, and appreciated that the study of history includes the arts, sciences, and religions of a given historic period. But, why? The answer is summed up in three ways of looking at history itself.
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