Devin O'Donnell

Today we are continuing our study of the Battle of Marathon. Later this week we read about and study the battle of Thermopylae. The story...

We go to a school where we study the classical world. And if there is one faint vestige left over from the classical world that we still...

We are continuing our study of the delayed identification of Odysseus. Agenda for Monday: Prayer Odyssey Books 1-12 Exam Biblia Sacra...

We discussed how Christ's identity is often concealed at first and revealed in significant ways that pertain to his character, such as in...

When Christ was preaching and teaching before the start of his ministry in Jerusalem, the revelation of his identity was carefully...

In Book XII of The Odyssey, we encounter the sacred cattle of Helios. They are warned many times not to harm the cattle of the Sun....

In his masterful essay, "The Weight of Glory," C. S. Lewis introduces an idea that restructured the theology of many modern Christians,...

Perhaps we are all familiar with the story behind the name given to the more skeptical of the apostles. In twentieth chapter of John's...

Cyrus in a big deal in history. Many Christians, for instance, don't know that he is referred to as the Lord's "anointed" in Isaiah. And...

Growing up in the church, one can become rather complacent with the significance of Easter, as if rising from the dead were so jejune...

Maundy Thursday marks a singular moment in Holy Week, a pause and a breath. In the midst of the growing sense of climax, the pageantry &...

Yesterday, we returned to the narrative of Christ's temptation in the wilderness, a fitting passage to contemplate in the season of Lent....

We are back to Homer, friends. More than the Iliad, this work seems to appeal to students by virtue of its sense of adventure (literally,...

Yesterday we finished The Eumenides by Aeschylus, which concludes the trilogy of tragic plays. We saw that the solution to the violent...

Today we are continuing our reading of The Eumenides. The name "Pythia" comes from "Pytho," which was the original name of Delphi,...

On the Church calendar, March 25 marks the feast of the Annunciation. This day is observed in Protestant and Catholic traditions by...

The Parable of the Wheat and Tares can be a difficult parable, but if we have mastered the parable about parables, then it is possible to...

Today we begin The Oresteia, following the disturbing events of the house of Atreus, particularly on character of Agamemnon and his...

Our catechism states, "the origins of the universe for pagan man is a tragic world, a closed system of fate, where all stories begin...

It says in Matthew that after Jesus was baptized, "he was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil" (4:1)....