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Thara Tenney

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Teacher of literature, student of history, practitioner of applied civics, and lifelong seeker of enduring truths.

My interests include literature, history, biography, philosophy, theology, and the enduring questions of the human condition. I am drawn to books that cultivate empathy, strengthen critical thinking, illuminate recurring patterns of human nature, and explore the ideas that shape both character and civilization.

As an educator, writer, and advocate for lifelong learning, I believe the humanities preserve humanity's accumulated wisdom. Through stories, history, and civic engagement, generations have wrestled with questions of meaning, virtue, justice, power, and human flourishing. My shelves reflect an ongoing pursuit of understand
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The Collapse of Parenting by Leonard Sax
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Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore
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Introduction to the Philosophy of History with Selections fro... by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition by Jean M. Yarbrough
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James by Percival Everett
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Jim teaching his children how to navigate the complexities of their world: “Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient. ‘There must be something,’ Virgil said. I’m sorry, Virgil. You might be right. There might be s ...more
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All Things New by Fiona Givens
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“Christianity exposed the deeper roots of our being: fragmented individuals finding fullness only in a thriving web of relationships. And pervading these relationships was a principle unseen in human history: the dissolution of hierarchy, status, and ...more
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Literature, Science, and a New Humanities by Jonathan Gottschall
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Corrie ten Boom
“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.”
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom
“The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ’s that made the difference.”
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom
“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It’s something we make inside ourselves.”
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom
“Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.”
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom
“Thank you," Betsie went on serenely, "for the fleas and for-"

The fleas! This was too much. "Betsie, there's no way even God can make me grateful for a flea."

"Give thanks in all circumstances," she quoted. "It doesn't say, 'in pleasant circumstances.' Fleas are part of this place where God has put us."

And so we stood between piers of bunks and gave thanks for fleas. But this time I was sure Betsie was wrong.”
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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