The Athenian Oath, also known as the Ephebic Oath, was recited by the young men of Athens, Greece more than 2,000 years ago when they became citizens at the age of seventeen.  It is one of the great historic pledges...

The Honor Code says that a CCA student is dutiful in service.  If you heard just those words, you might think this was a military academy.  After all, soldiers report for duty; and when someone has spent time working for...

The Honor Code calls us to be diligent…but not just diligent generally; we are to be diligent in study.  But why study?  Why not diligent in effort?  Or diligent in virtue?  Or diligent in action?  Well, those are certainly good things...

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and...

We’re talking about being diligent in study this week.  But what is diligence in the first place?  Well, the dictionary definition is “having or showing care and conscientiousness in one’s work or duties,” and also being “attentive and persistent” in...

One of the marks of a CCA student is that he is diligent in study.  Now, you may think this is just stuck in there so that it is easier for teachers to tell you to do your schoolwork—after all,...

Being upright in conduct does not guarantee us earthly rewards.  It won’t necessarily make us rich, or successful, or popular.  In fact, the Bible tells us that oftentimes, the upright man is quite unpopular. Proverbs 29:27 says that “[a]n unjust man...

Benjamin Franklin was, among other things, the publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanac in colonial America. The Almanack contained the annual calendar, weather, poetry, astronomical information, along with math exercises and various sayings and proverbs. Franklin himself said that a chief...

In 2006, Joya Williams was the executive assistant to Coca Cola’s global head of marketing.  Because of her position, she had access to lots of secret information about Coke—new flavors they were coming out with, new packaging ideas, documents with...

This week we are considering the Honor Code’s instruction to be “upright in conduct.”  The idea of uprightness is frequently expressed in the Bible using two different Hebrew words: “Yashar,” which means straight, and “tam,” which means perfect or complete. ...