We have extended our Easter offer through the weekend of April 21st at Word & Song with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. It’s often been noted that there weren’t a lot of great stage plays written in English in the nineteenth century. I'm not sure why that was so, but I do know this — it is the great age of a new form of…

We are extending our Easter special through April 21st at Word & Song with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here It’s spring, right? So then, time for a merry poem about how wonderful the lasses are! When I was at Providence College, one of my students organize…

We are continuing our Easter discount through April 21st, with 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions at Word & Song. May God bless you all during the coming week and through Eastertide. Easter Discount Here I’d like to set the scene for our Hymn of the Week by going back to the days shortly before Jesus was to die. He had come to Jerusa…

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here People say that the color that gives us our Word of the Week, green, is the easiest of all upon the eyes. Red appears bold and brash — a little of it g…

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount As we have seen rather frequently in these pages, Sometimes a Song is a work of musical genius. In general, musical talent shows up in early youth, but the …

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here For this Friday’s Anthony Esolen Speaks, we’re going to do something a little different from what we usually do. That is, we’re taking a close look at …

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here “We build a scha-pel,” says the Mother Superior, to the young black handyman who has showed up for a day’s work and a day’s wages. She has a thick Germ…

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here I’ve long believed that George Herbert wasn’t just the greatest religious poet in English, but the greatest of all our lyric poets, regardless of what …

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here If you lived in Clapham, southwest of London, in the late 1700’s all the way to the middle of the 1800’s, you might easily get to know and to hear some…

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here You are in school one day, when a creature from Mars walks into your room. He turns his antennas toward the teacher and they start to vibrate and hum. …

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here Sometimes a Song stays popular for a very long time. Just over 100 years ago, toward the end of the War to End All Wars — what we now call the First Wo…

Our Easter discount continues through April 15th, with 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions at Word & Song. Easter Discount Here And with a great groan Jesus gave up the ghost. Then his disciples fled. When the barbarian warlord Clovis first heard the account of the Crucifixion, he is said to have shaken his head and said, “If only I h…

Now through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues with a 20% discount on all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. We wish you all the blessings of Eastertide. Easter Discount Here How can you tell when you are in the presence of some overpowering truth? When even the smallest detail of it leads you farther and farther into truth …

Through April 15th at Word & Song our Easter special continues: 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions. May God bless you all during the coming week and through Eastertide. Easter Discount Here “This is the day the Lord has made,” sings the psalmist. “Let us be glad and rejoice in it!” Do you know what day it is, dear Reader? I remember …

Our Easter continues through April 15th, with 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions at Word & Song. May God bless you all during the coming week and through Eastertide. Easter Discount Here The year is 1759, and that means that the French and English are at war. It does seem sometimes that for any year from William of Normandy’s conques…

Our Easter discount continues through April 15th, with 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions at Word & Song. Easter Discount Here Jesus had put everybody out of the room except for a couple of his disciples. A little girl was lying on the bed. She was asleep — in the sleep of death. The people in the house had called for Jesus to come a…

This episode of Anthony Esolen Speaks — free to everyone today — is a reading from my book, In the Beginning Was the Word. The scripture reference for this meditation is John 1:10: “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published OH all ye, who…

During Holy Week we will be sharing a mix of old and new at Word & Song. And we have an Easter special for you as well: 20% off all upgrades, gift, and new subscriptions through April 15th. May God bless you all during the coming week and through Eastertide. Easter Discount Here “He leadeth me by the still waters,” says the Psalmist. Those are not …

Chapters 17-19, Teaching english & Chapter 6, Unlocking

Let's begin from the very beginning. There are so many acronyms related to ESOL. You have probably heard such words as ESL, ESOL, ELL, EL, L1, L2, and LEP. What do they all mean?