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Each year, Pembroke College in Oxford—the university where J.R.R. Tolkien taught Anglo-Saxon literature—holds an annual public lecture series in honor of the late author and professor. Fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay delivered this year’s lecture, titled “Just Enough Light: Some Thoughts on Fantasy and Literature.” The Tolkien Lecture is designed to promote “the study of fantasy literature, and advances our understanding of it, by inviting influential and talented speakers to share their ideas on the field,” and was established in 2013 by the university’s students. Past speaker...

Housing and Development Newsletter “It is an amazing feeling to even get to do this today,” Beebe said. “I realize we're restricted on the field, but we have people from around the world who are watching via the streaming services that are being provided today.” Russell Howell, professor of mathematics at Westmont, provided introductory remarks. “I realized not all of you are parents of our graduates,” Howell said. “You are all here because you have had a significant influence on their lives. Rest assured that your influence will certainly continue.” Graduation exercises serv...

An Essay on the Education and Instruction of Children. Sulzer commented on infant behaviour: They see something they want but cannot have; they become angry, cry, and flail about. Or they are given something that does not please them; they fling it aside and begin to cry. These are dangerous faults that hinder their entire education and encourage undesirable qualities in children… The moment these flaws appear in a child, it is high time to resist this evil so that it does not become ingrained through habit and the children do not become thoroughly depraved. Therefore, I advise all those wh...

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(Photo courtesy St. Peter’s Episcopal Church) The Community Speakers Series organized by the Pastoral Care Committee at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Rockland is offering another program titled “Opening to Grace.”  The program will be Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, at 2 p.m., via Zoom. Presenters will be Rev. Abby Pettee and Dr. Kirsten Staples. To describe the program, the presenters share this quote from Anne Lamott’s  Travelling Mercies, Some Thoughts on Faith: “Grace meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.” Through conversational sharing and discussion pa...