Two of our Summer 2023 interns join Mindi for a discussion about favorite books and how their parents helped them learn how to love good literature.

The books discussed are:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodr Dostoevsky 

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Fr. Nikolai Meyers reflects on loving ways to address moments when parents are faced with disobedience and disrespect.

Today’s podcast with Melissa Elizabeth Naasko features the new financial coordinator for St Emmelia Ministries, Marcy Fox. Marcy is a mother of three and she and her husband own a small business. As music teachers with a studio, they incorporate their business life with their homeschooling life. Marcy is also a dedicated life long adult learner and she inspires others to always keep learning and to not let the fear of failure deprive of us the opportunity to do new things. One of her tasks is to distribute scholarship funds to clergy families enrolled in online education, a program which is funded through the generous donations of the faithful. You can find out more about this and other scholarship programs offered by St Emmelia by clicking through here.

https://www.saintemmelia.com/scholarships-grants

The interns discuss some of the challenges they've faced in their homeschool journey, and how they have faced those challenges.

The Saint Emmelia interns discuss what they've loved about their homeschool experience.

In this introductory episode of the "Growing With Grace" series, we meet the hosts: Three homeschooled teens who have been interning with St. Emmelia Ministries. They get to know each other a little better and discuss their respective homeschool backgrounds.

Today Melissa Naasko sits down with Deacon Nicholas Kotar. Father is an author and publisher and an expert on Russian folklore as well as an accomplished musician and director. Father discusses storytelling and the role that stories play in our lives. He also discusses the right and wrong ways to introduce them.

Deacon Nicholas’ website:

https://nicholaskotar.com

Deacon Nicholas’ vlog episode with reading recommendations that can be found here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ9tfs0naVbzTKzxMzv6X-1mxX0bJhRYf

Deacon Nicholas’ upcoming writer’s webinar:

https://www.subscribepage.com/guidepostswebinar

Melissa’s suggested book for learning to analyze what our children read:

https://ignatius.com/a-landscape-with-dragons-lwdp/

Jonathan Pageau’s Snow White Project:

https://youtu.be/DgaCikt1hSg

Fr. Raphael Barberg is the Saint Emmelia Ministries Spiritual Advisor for the diocese of Ottawa, Canada, & Upstate New York. In this episode of Spiritual Nuggets, Fr. Raphael shares his insights into and experience with teaching our children science that is grounded in Orthodoxy.

Today Fr Noah Bushelli's wife, Khouria Elizabeth, joins the show to talk about homeschooling not just in a priest's family but in a large family. She shares her thoughts on how her methodology has changed over the years and what homeschooling has taught her as well as the blessings that homeschooling has brought her.

Products mentioned in today's podcast:

https://rightstartmath.com/

https://cathyduffyreviews.com/homeschool-reviews-core-curricula/math-supplements/3rd-grade/math-it#

Here are the books mentioned:

Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky

Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

East by Edith Pattou

Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer