Every day is an anniversary. History is so rich and so resplendent that there is not a single date that does not offer great lessons in heroism or ignominy, brilliance or foolishness, inspiration or admonition. There is not a single date that does not point us toward the remarkable cultural and spiritual legacy of our Christian inheritance in Western Civilization. And there is not even a wrinkle in time that does not bear the obvious impress of Godās own good providence. In this massive 800 plus page reference work George Grant and Greg Wilbur survey the significant events of every day of the year--an incredible "today in history" project written from a distinctive Christian worldview. $17.95
"He has shown you oh man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you: but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8). In this remarkable verse, the prophet summarized in shorthand fashion the very essence of the Gospel. And in this remarkable book, George Grant enunciates the prophet's clarion call for a life of Biblical balance for a whole new generation. This is the book he calls his "manifesto," his "credo," and his "life message." Here is theology made practical, discipleship made substantive, and ministry made compassionate. A must read. $10.95
Christmas is nearly everyone's favorite time of the year because it is adorned with so many special celebrations, happy memories, delightful stories, wonderful songs, and rich recipes. A season of selfless giving and expressive love, it is a time for family togetherness, for snuggling up to the hearthside, for recalling legends and fables, and for celebrating the things that matter the most. This beautiful hardback book captures the essence of the Yuletide season by gathering in one place all of those elements that contribute to the joyous spirit of Christmas. From the origins of our most cherished holiday traditions and rituals to the insights of the wisest men and women of the ages on their significance, Christmas Spirit emphasizes and underscores the best moments of the season. Soft: $10.95 Hard: $16.95
Where does a person go for good counsel? Who can you trust to provide reliable advice when it's needed? Only rarely do most of us have the opportunity to benefit from what the best experts in any subject know. George and Karen Grant found themselves musing about these questions as their oldest son entered his senior year of high school. They had provided him with a stable, strong home, but in just one year he would head to college, where he would receive plenty of advice--good and bad--from all quarters. They decided that before he was gone, they would provide him with a legacy of genuine wisdom--ideas that stood the test of time. This delightful collection is the result. $12.95
Some have said that if love is what makes the world go round, friendship is what keeps it on its axis. Indeed, friendship is one of the most powerful forces at work in shaping the destinies of people and nations. Best Friends, the second volume in George and Karen Grant's unique Christian Worldview series is a creative look at a number of remarkable friendships that have strongly affected the course of western civilization. Each chapter contains brief biographical sketches of the friends, thoughtful consideration of the qualities that made their friendships so distinctive, and short quotations from correspondence and publications. The result is a warm, fascinating look at some of the most influential persons of all time. $12.95
According to ancient Latin proverb, "Travelers may change their climate but never their souls." While this truism is still valid, there can be little doubt that travelers may at least change their thinking occasionally. By virtue of seeing the world--its varied sights, sounds, textures, hues, and cultural passions--travelers are gifted with a unique view of life that militates against parochialism, pettiness, and prejudice. This thrid volume in George and Karen Grant's worldview series traces the ways travel has enlightened lives and viewpoints throughout history by following some of the world's most famous writers, artists, and thinkers as they made their way across the globe. $12.95
History is replete with examples of great lost causes, ill-fated designs, subjugated aspirations that somehow continued to capture the imaginations, stir the passions, and tug at the sympathies of men and nations long after they had supposedly been vanquished. They seem to be those perpetually defeated things that nevertheless managed to survive their conquerors, instilling in their adherents eternal hope, blazing idealism, and irrepressible romanticism. This new worldview series book from George and Karen Grant is a marvelous look back at some of those supposedly defeated men and movements. Lost Causes provides a much needed corrective to the temptation to pessimism and hopelessness that too frequently delays the triumph of good over evil. $12.95
This book is a celebration of the literate. It is a revelry of reading. It is an expression of joy in the blessing of books, stories, poems, sagas, legends, and all the things that literature seems to invoke or provoke in our lives. It is not a protest. It is not a caveat. It is not an attempt at social analysis, criticism, or churlishness. Indeed, George and Karen Grant believe that just as art needs no justification, we may rest assured that beauty, goodness, and truth are well able to fend for themselves, so also the shelf life needs no defense. Mere affirmation affords stark contrast enough with the howling wasteland of modern bohemianism. This latest volume in the worldview series is a must read for all book lovers, list-makers, and bibliogogs. $12.95
Now available! This is the seventh and final volume of Karen and George Grant's worldview series. And it shares their love of gardens. From the very beginning, mankind has been at home in a garden. In all the intervening years, we have found solace from the wearying effects of the poor fallen world among the flowers and herbs, trees and vines, vegetables and fruits. Garden Graces explores this universal appeal of working the soil, husbanding the plants, and tending the harvest. By taking a long and lingering look at some of the world's most beautiful gardens and listening appreciatively to the legends, testimonies, quips, verses, and stories of the gardeners who created them, the mysterious joys of sowing and reaping become all too evident. Once again, George and Karen Grant provide a delightful Christian worldview perspective of common things. $10.95
This newly repackaged softcover edition of George Grant's Carry a Big Stick is a much needed reminder that there is more to courage and character that simlpy heroism. Such traits are born through struggle and grace; at a time much in need of true servant leadership, these are qualities of definate necessity for us all. Soft: $14.95
G. K. Chesterton once quipped that America is the only nation ever founded on a creed. While other nations focus on ethnicity, geography, ideology, or tradition, America was founded on certain ideas about freedom, human dignity, and social responsibility. This profound peculiarity was what most struck Alexis de Tocqueville when he visited in the early nineteenth century. He called it "American Exceptionalism." At about the same time, American educators began to realize that if their experiment in liberty to succeed, informed patriotism must be instilled in the young. Thus rising citizens were presented with a small handbook, a brief guide to the essential elements of American exceptionalism's creed. This little book, compiled by George Grant, is a continuation of that old tradition. $9.95
The Patriot's Handbook is a text that George Grant has wanted to publish for more than a decade. Now, it is finally available. The volume is a concise introduction to the ideas, events, and personalities of American freedom. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to understand the nation's identity as it has developed from its founding until. Included are key documents, speeches, poems, songs, and profiles of the presidents and many of the leaders who have contributed to the nation's history. Want to understand the Electoral College and why it is important? Do you know who the fifteen presidents before George Washington were? It is all here--and more. $15.95
George Grant's new novel is full of surprises. Dan and Bea were extraordinarily ordinary. They were middle-class and middle-aged. Over the course of their rather unremarkable careers, they had clawed and scrapped their way toward comfortable middle-management positions in a mid-sized corporation headquartered in the Midwest. In many ways they were living the American dream. But were plagued with the notion that their lives were going nowhere. So, they did something entirely unexpected: they quit their jobs, sold their house, loaded their VW Bug, and hit the road. As reviewer Lisa Goldstein has commented, "In this novel of ideas, the moral imagination of George Grant reworks Dante's Inferno as a scathing commentary on Modern America. Witty, poignant, and all too telling, it is a delicious literary experiment of the first order." $12.95
This new book by Stephen Mansfield and George Grant was written for the Bicentennial Commission of Tennessee. It celebrates the state's spiritual topography--from the earliest days of the Cherokees and Chickamaugas to the coming of the pioneer Presbyterians and Baptists, from the earliest Jewish communities to the great Pentecostal Backwater Revivals, and from the incursions of Eastern ethnic religions to the great Restoration movements. With more than 100 lithographs, engravings, line drawings, and photographs, the text also includes sidebars of key persons and movements, an index, and a bibliography for further study and reading. A wonderful resource for anyone interested in the frontier settlements that made America the greatest nation on earth. $16.95
A great passion for the ballads and legends of his native land was the genesis of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) remarkable literary career÷-he simply wanted to share his gleeful appreciation for great stories, lively yarns, and heroic tales. But in his Tales of a Scottish Grandfather, written for his often sickly grandson, he was sharing his stories in a whole new light. The books demonstrate both his command of the history of his beloved land as well as his mastery of the craft of story telling. This second of four volumes recounts the momentous events during the Reformation. With the colorful figures of John Knox, George Buchanan, and Mary Queen of Scots on the center stage, he was able to delineate the distinctive differences between Scottish history and that of all other nations. $14.95
James Fenimore Cooper, Honor" de de de de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray were among the many who learned from Sir Walter Scott's panoramic studies of the interplay between social trends and individual character. But besides his novels his vast and ornate estate overlooking the Tweed River remains a lasting testimony to his faith and vision. Abbotsford became a combination folly, museum, and worldview proclamation. It was thus a combination of those two elements of the great man--the passion to retell the tales of his homeland in his historical novels and the passion to collect artifacts of his legacy--that seemed to come together in the last great project he undertook at the end of his life: writing Tales of a Scottish Grandfather. Particularly in this volume, which details the romantic saga of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Scott remains the consummate story-teller while at the same time assembling the historical materials like a true archivist. Indeed, it represents the very height of his mastery. $14.95
All of Sir Walter Scott's books were stamped with his overarching conviction about the importance of tradition. On the cusp of the magnificent flowering of industrial advance, it seemed to him that men were sadly afflicted with a kind of malignant contemporaniety. As a result, all of Scottās work essentially argued stridently that stable societies must be eternally vigilant in the task of handing on their great legacy÷-to remember and then to inculcate that remembrance in the hearts and minds of their children. That is precisely the task the great man undertook with the writing of his beloved Tales of a Scottish Grandfather beginning in 1828. The four volumes, regaled in the great Scottish legacy of freedom. It is not surprising that they quickly became among his most highly regarded books. This third volume in particular, with its emphasis on the great chivalric age between the Reformation and the Jacobite Rising, demonstrates the power of heritage to shape the present and steer the future. It is a treasure÷-no less than all the artifacts Scott assembled at Abbotsford. $14.95
Someday, this may be a book--that is the plan, anyway. But for now it is a collection of the most requested talks George Grant has given through the years at CCSA, ACCS, and various state homeschool conventions. Dr. Grant was not trained as an educator. He never once entertained aspirations to an ivory tower existence. Indeed, his career as a pastor, journalist, political consultant, and community activist would hardly have portended a life in academia. And yet, he suddenly found himself in the forefront of a remarkable educational movement--the great return to classical methodologies and curricula. This eight CD series describes not only his unique approach to lifetime learning, but his unique journey to the classroom as well. $32.00