Artist Jan Blencowe is offering a free course called Winter Sketching with Pen and Pencil. It has over an hour of video tutorials that teach you how to sketch bare branches, pine branches, holly, and oranges and cranberries. You can register for the course here. While I am still waiting for the snow to fall […]
Author: Jessi Vandagriff
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
William Studwell wrote a bit about the history of this hymn in his book The Christmas Carol Reader: In spite of the mentions of bells and Christmas in the title, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” is as much an antiwar song as it is a pro-Christmas song. The poetry of this renowned carol […]
50 Years of LDS Art
The following is an excerpt from a post on the Zion Art Society website. This [month] is the 50th anniversary of the address “A Gospel Vision of the Arts.” Given in 1967 by Spencer W. Kimball, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, it has become both loved and loathed by […]
Hymn Study Materials
We are pleased to announce that the hymn selections for the 2017-2018 school year are now available! We have done our best to include hymns of the Restoration, lesser-known hymns, Christmas & Easter hymns, and hymns from the greater Christian world. Selecting these hymns turned out to be more difficult than we anticipated! We found some […]
Supplementary Resources for Latter-day Saints
The online Charlotte Mason homeschooling community is vibrant and generous. Many wonderful Christian parents have produced resources and entire curricula based on Miss Mason’s methods. LDS families can use these resources successfully, but we think that there is a better way. By Study and Faith was created to help meet the needs of Latter-day Saint […]