Graham Sommers

Graham Sommers fell in love with Greek and Hebrew in high school through an early college program at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul. He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture from New St. Andrews College where he learned to speak Latin and took graduate-level courses in Hebrew. He is currently creating a Hebrew version of Picta Dicta and writing Hebrew novellas. He is a language instructor for Davenant Institute, and teaches Latin online for Trinity Christian School, HI. You can find him poring over some ancient text like the Greek fragments of Enoch or the angelic liturgy of Dead Sea Scrolls. He loves Augustine, Dostoevsky, and Midrash, and wants to live to see a renaissance of Christian Hebraism. He is now pursuing an M.A. in Theology at Marquette University. Graham lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife Hope.

Teaching Philosophy

Education is not merely a transfer of information. It is the process of a student becoming like his teacher by imitating his teacher’s love and posture. A student not only acquires some part of what his teacher knows but more importantly he may gain some part of his teacher’s love for the subject. This kindling of love through imitation is the heart of education. Students also imitate a teacher’s posture. Humility and arrogance, patience and a quick temper, openness, and narrowmindedness, are all caught and copied. Therefore, in my teaching, I strive to cultivate two scholarly virtues, which are also simply human virtues: love of my subject and humility. I want to kindle a love of what I love in my students. I want to model humility in the classroom, an openness to the unknown, and an acknowledgment of our limitations as knowing creatures.

Statement of Faith

I affirm the Apostles’ and Nicene Creed. I believe the Old and New Testament are the inspired Word of God. I am a member of a Reformed Evangelical church.