In his epistle, James commands Christians to listen first, respond carefully, and avoid anger.

In this age of intense political polarization, vitriol is more common than gentleness.

There is an old saying that goes if you can count on one hand the number of true friends you have in ...

Goodness is a quality that is hard to define. Dolly defines goodness in terms of selflessness.

While Dolly might have a casual relationship with truth-telling, no one can accuse her of lacking kindness.

Relationships require patience: parent to child, husband to wife, and friend to friend. One of the most beautiful elements of ...

A curmudgeon. A miser. A Scrooge. These words describe Mr. Horace Vandergelder throughout much of the musical...

Hello, Dolly! is one of the most joyful musicals to cross the Broadway stage. There is a strong desire by the characters to live life to...

Love is a perennial theme of Broadway musicals. The fathers of the Broadway musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein, have many masterpieces...

North Raleigh Christian Academy holds to the core value that all truth is God’s truth. This includes the truth found in...

Another major theme of Into the Woods is intergenerational trauma. The sins of the parents do indeed visit the lives of their children...

Audiences often equate Cinderella with the virtues of goodness and kindness. She serves her stepmother and stepsisters without complaint, an

The Baker’s Wife is one of the most complicated (and compelling) characters in the musical theatre canon. One reason for this is that she...

Little Red Riding Hood is naïve about the world around her. She has instructions from her mother to journey directly to her grandmother’s...

Into the Woods doesn’t give much detail about why Jack’s father left the family, but the consequences are all too present. Poverty, ...

Even given the magical world he inhabits, The Baker is much afraid of things both real and imagined. He allows circumstances to wreak...

C.S. Lewis, the creative storyteller behind the beloved Chronicles of Narnia, once said, “Someday you will be old enough to start reading...