{"id":4785,"date":"2020-01-01T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2022-01-26T03:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T03:05:21","slug":"a-primer-to-the-freedoms-hill-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2020\/01\/01\/a-primer-to-the-freedoms-hill-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to the CIFC blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks for checking out the blog for the Carolina Institute of Faith and Culture!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find over 400 posts here, a number growing by the day, so you\u2019d be excused for feeling a tad bewildered about where to begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019re visiting for the first time or just looking to make an informed deep dive into the blog\u2019s archive, these posts are a great place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/category\/conversations\/\">a series of conversations<\/a> with professors (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2017\/12\/04\/most-amazing-i-get-paid-to-do-this-a-conversation-with-dr-paul-schleifer\/\">English<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2017\/09\/24\/michael-keaton-swu-history-professor-by-day-author-when-he-has-time\/\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2017\/10\/28\/radio-voice-an-interview-with-dr-lewis-knight-senior-producer-at-cifc\/\">Media Communications<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/04\/16\/canuck-talk-an-interview-with-dr-michael-tapper\/\">Religion<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2019\/07\/06\/learning-to-hear-the-chickens-voice-part-1-dynestee-fields-honors-project\/\">honors students<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2019\/12\/09\/a-love-letter-to-jesus-freak-a-conversation-with-will-stockton\/\">other academic<\/a>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton and other Christian writers? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-christian-writers\/\">You can start with the posts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Paul Schleifer has been writing his  \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/category\/word-of-the-day\/\">Word of the Day<\/a>\u201d column for awhile, on and off. Looking for an entry point? Students particularly liked his entries for the words \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/03\/06\/word-of-the-day-rotund\/\">rotund<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-vacillate\/\">vacillate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students have contributed some of the site\u2019s best work, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-literary-analysis\/\">analysis of great literature<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-reviews\/\">book, film, and theater reviews <\/a> as well as some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-commentary\/\">simply humorous observations about life and literature<\/a>. Our Media Communications students have also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-media-communications\/\">showcased their work on the site<\/a>, and it\u2019s well worth checking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, some faculty have contributed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/tag\/best-of-essays\/\">thought-provoking essays on education.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find some other gems here, let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you\u2019re visiting for the first time or just looking to make an informed deep dive into the Primer\u2019s archive, these posts are a great place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","tag-best-of","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}