The Hunt for Beowulf

Next Friday, we host our final Class for Analyzing and Interpreting Literature from a Christian Worldview. It's been a real blast!

Here you go, all you Beowulf fans (and you know who you are) I don't want you to feel neglected. In The Hunt for Beowulf radio drama, a professional artifacts thief known as the Jaguar has stolen the original Beowulf manuscript from the British Library. Now the Creation Response Team is on a mission to get it back as they travel to many places including England, Iwo Jima, the interior jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Galápagos Islands!
Read about The Hunt for Beowulf at http://www.jonathanpark.com/radio_drama/episodes/volumedetails.aspx?vol=4 .Download the Jonathon Park study guides free at http://www.jonathanpark.com/learning_zone/homeschoollessons/ .

So, what's your favorite story? Share it here, with only one caveat--put into practice what you've learned in this course, and analyze it from a Christian worldview.

Facing the Viking Terror Threat--Today

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It is not difficult to draw parallels to current events. For instance, notice how Europeans reacted to the threat of Vikings--the terror threat in their time:
"Remember, the kings and dukes of Europe were busily pursuing their own goals–trying to get the other people’s land–instead of obeying God’s commands to govern rightly the lands they already had! This selfishness made them distracted, weak, disorganized...and foolish. When the first raids came they seemed to think they were a fluke and would never happen again; they went on their merry way, feathering their own nests. But don’t we do the same? Aren’t we out for what Francis Schaeffer calls “personal peace and affluence?” Aren’t we more focused on feathering our own nests than quelling the world’s growing dangers? Don’t we assume trouble will come to other, faraway people: surely our shire can’t be touched! Doesn’t modern philosophy say there is no one to fear since there really is no evil (or else it would have to acknowledge the need for a Savior as well as the existence of a God who has the right to determine what is good and evil)? Well, let the 800s be a lesson to us: if we are selfish and distracted and weak, those who are cruel–and there are cruel people in this world–will take advantage. Remember what the Book of Ecclesiastes tells us: nothing is new under the sun."-- http://www.truthquesthistory.com/store/pdf/middleages.pdf .

Malex Minute, Macbeth, and Future Shrew Taming

First, please allow me to congratulate our faithful friends at The Malex Media Network™ on the launch of the MalexMinute.com, at http://malexminute.com/ . The Malex Minute launched this weekend to celebrate the Malex Minute's first birthday. Visit and enjoy a little healthy laughter and free, clean and clever audio entertainment. Imagine the Marx brothers, only updated to the 21st century and minus unsavory innuendos. Note that the illustrations at the Malex Minute are top rate, adding an extra dimension to the experience for those of us who are visually oriented. The Markley Brothers (responsible for this madness) "often poke fun at politics and the entertainment industry while simultaneously satirizing whatever happened to us at the grocery store last week. It's so exciting! We've even been known to bring in various people and interview them! (Failing that, we occasionally corner various people and interview them - an exhilarating, albeit frequently unsatisfactory solution.)"

I recommend using the Malex Minute to help you recover from reading tragedy such as Shakespeare's Macbeth, which we studied in our Analyzing Literature class last week. We explored invigorating discussion questions, such as "Can the devil speak true?" If you would like to weigh in and post your comments, click the comments button, below.

We plan to watch and discuss "The Taming of the Shrew" on March 23, at our house. On the subject of shrews and submission, The Values-Driven Family, at http://www.valuesdrivenfamily.com/core_value_verses.htm , is offering a free "comprehensive compilation of Bible verses and case studies from the Word organized by themes to help you model and teach the values that God values... You will see from reviewing these documents that there is little doubt that these twelve core values are certainly of great value to God." The authors, referring to 1 Corinthians 12:14-16, state that "Submission doesn't make one person "better" than another, just different roles."

As they used to say, “Stay tuned…”