Joshua Gibbs

Disputes Between Friends

We generally say, “I don’t want to take sides,” when our conscience tells us the weaker side is morally right.

After The LinkedIn TED Talk Bros Came to Classical Education

“You attend a classical education conference this summer and, while perusing the speaker biographies in the conference program, you come across the following: “Harge Manning is the founder of the Diluvian Consortium, a group of Christian thought leaders who specialize in dynamic vision forwarding, cognitive missional flexibility, core value development, servant viral marketing ethics, and integratedContinue reading “After The LinkedIn TED Talk Bros Came to Classical Education”

The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show Of All Time

“The badness of the show is easy to see twenty-four years later, and yet it’s not exactly true that it has “aged poorly.” Raw meat ages poorly, but the 2000 Halftime Show was quite, quite rancid on the day it aired—and this was obvious at the time to anyone who had even a modicum ofContinue reading “The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show Of All Time”

Amazing Things I Would Like To Hear

“I want to be respectful of everyone’s time so I’m going to cancel this meeting immediately and just send an email later tonight.”

Divine Justice

“[Subjects] want crimes to be punished, [citizens] want them prevented.” -Rousseau And why do subjects want crimes punished? Because a monarchy is an inherently religious form of government, and God Himself is far more concerned with punishing crimes than preventing them. God has relatively little interest in crime prevention.

Chiefs v 49ers/Biden v Trump

2020 Super Bowl: Chiefs v 49ers 2024 Super Bowl: Chiefs v 49ers 2020 Election: Biden v Trump 2024 Election: Biden v Trump Let’s hope the parallels between 2020 and 2024 stop there.

Teachers Are Fed Up With No-Consequence Discipline

“Why enforce attendance or discipline a child for talking out of turn when there’s a fight in the cafeteria? “We’ve got bigger fish to fry!” But if school staff do not hold the line on small fights, bigger fish come along. Highly successful charter schools adopt a “broken windows” approach to school order—even paying staffContinue reading “Teachers Are Fed Up With No-Consequence Discipline”

On Worship & Idolatry

The average modern Christian’s understanding of worship is so vague and undefined, it isn’t helpful to talk about “worshipping the creator, not the creation.” It would be better (and more to the point) to speak of serving the creator or adoring the creator, not the creation. Our vague understanding of worship has led to aContinue reading “On Worship & Idolatry”

Whatever Is Of Good Report

In the lengthy description St. Paul gives the Philippian church of those things worth thinking about, the most neglected, misunderstood, and ignored attribute is “whatever is of good report.” Classics are determined by a wide survey of history.

The USPS Is Terrible

I buy and sell things online on secondary platforms. In the last two months, the USPS has regularly taken three weeks or more to deliver packages that are supposed to arrive in two to five days. Today, nineteen days after shipping it, a package I sent to Texas was delivered to a buyer and theContinue reading “The USPS Is Terrible”