“My suspicion, then, is that as mankind gains more and more control over nature, we will need Christmas to begin earlier and earlier. If we are impatient, we are impatient to escape the atheistic world of time in which modernity has trapped us. “So,” sneers the grinch, “you’d prefer Christmas to begin in January? IsContinue reading “I Will Justify The Ways Of Christmas To Man”
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
Decluttering Your Way To Hell
“Americans have so many things that a certain kind of book has lately proliferated which is expressly designed to make readers want to get rid of their things, and to feel good about it. Simplicity and minimalism are hot ticket non-items this year. Of course, minimalism is really just another kind of thing you buy.Continue reading “Decluttering Your Way To Hell”
Top 10 Gibbs Articles
As of today, I have been blogging for CiRCE for ten years. I decided to make a list of my ten favorite articles from over the last decade. You can read that list here.
How Do You Test On That?
“First, your work needs to be typed, printed, and stapled in the top left corner. Second, you need to use the Calibri font and may not mess with margins. Third, the paper itself needs to be pristine. If it’s wrinkled at all, I won’t accept it. Seriously. Fourth, your work needs to be signed byContinue reading “How Do You Test On That?”
Unintended Telos
There is a sense in which German higher criticism is simply a reductio ad absurdum of historical-grammatical hermeneutics. The problem for those who depend entirely on historical-grammatical hermeneutics isn’t that higher criticism is wrong, but that it’s entirely possible within such a hermeneutical framework. In other words, the problem isn’t the assertions of higher criticism,Continue reading “Unintended Telos”
Over And Over, All Day
This one speaks to me perpetually.
Neutrality
Often enough, the real reason a man says he doesn’t want to “pick sides” is because he knows the weaker side is right.
It’s Halloween. Let’s Talk About Dark Music.
“Gibbs: When I was your age, I liked a lot of dark stuff, as well, and I liked it for that very reason. Student: Which reason? Gibbs: It wasn’t happy-clappy pop music about how great life is all the time. Although, let’s be honest. It’s not happy-clappy pop music I was rebelling against. It was happy-clappy Christian pop musicContinue reading “It’s Halloween. Let’s Talk About Dark Music.”
The First Time I Have Done This In Years
I deleted my Facebook account three and a half years ago, but I downloaded the entire account and look at the pictures every now and again. Tonight I went through a few years worth of old posts, most of which are pointless, and found the following posts which seemed worth saving, most of which pertainContinue reading “The First Time I Have Done This In Years”
Terrifying Poetry
An untitled poem by Daniel Berrigan Recent events,of practically no importbut which a single eyemight barter itself blindjust to see
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 