Joshua Gibbs

Releasing Later This Week: Will Heaven Be Boring?

“Will Heaven Be Boring?” is my next pamphlet and will be out later this week through Amazon. It’s a long, meandering conversation between a teacher and student about the titular question which branches out into matters of art, romance, beauty, good taste, piety, knowledge, and freedom. Some of the same matters argued in Love WhatContinue reading “Releasing Later This Week: Will Heaven Be Boring?”

Every Orthodox Person Has Seen This, But Regardless

Worth watching through to the end.

So Close, Yet So Far Apart

Progressives think nothing from the past is worth saving, conservatives think almost nothing from the past is worth saving. That little almost is the hinge upon which the political world turns. If anything from the past is worth saving, the entire orientation of man must change.

You Like The Big Bang Theory

Tell me you’re the kind of person who makes “tell me you’re the kind of person who” jokes without telling me you’re the kind of person who makes “tell me the kind of person who” jokes.

Pretend It’s A School

Teaching Burke’s Reflections for the fifteenth time, the term “moral imagination” finally became clear to me. I’ve only begun to unravel the idea, but early sketches can be found in the latest episode of Proverbial.

A Stunning Critique of Corporate Virtues (and LinkedIn-TEDTalk Wannabes)

This was made a decade ago and it still fees as searingly fresh as a papercut that hasn’t even started to bleed yet.

Bad Romance

“The way Tod spoke of their relationship to his friends didn’t always seem entirely accurate to Jill. Tod was ambitious, of course, and perhaps this accounted for his tendency of wildly exaggerating how often they saw each other, or his descriptions of what they did when they were together. “We have this thing we doContinue reading “Bad Romance”

Just In Case You Wondered How Bad The USPS Is

This is the tracking history on a package I recently ordered that originally shipped from San Diego. From San Diego to Pittsburgh to New Jersey to Phoenix to New Jersey…

Opening 2024: The Classical Teaching Institute

This summer, my family and I are moving back to Idaho where I will be the director of The Classical Teaching Institute. A website with full details is coming soon.

Spring Sounds

I’ve been listening to this record for more than a decade, but I now firmly associate it with Spring. It was one of three or four records (along with A Soul Ascends and Brian Eno’s Neroli)I listened to every day right after the lockdown began. Tired Sounds of is a contemplative, chastened, immersive, immense, cautiouslyContinue reading “Spring Sounds”