Every week, on the drive to Church. Q: Where are we going? A: To Church. Q: Where is Church? A: In Heaven. Q: When is Church? A: The end of time. Q: Who will we see at Church? A: Mary, Jesus, the martyrs, the saints, the apostles, and the prophets. Q: Who are the apostles?Continue reading “Sunday Morning Catechism With My Daughters”
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
A Short History of Audacious Bets Made In America During The 20th Century
Christians: (pushing a small stack of poker chips into the middle of the table) I bet there’s no such thing as gluttony. Secularists: (pushing out two larger stacks of poker chips) I bet there’s no such thing as lust. Christians: (undaunted, pushing all remaining poker chips out) I bet there’s no such thing as shallowness.Continue reading “A Short History of Audacious Bets Made In America During The 20th Century”
Books Finished In 2020
A work of juvenilia, really, but I am moving on to Stoner next. I haven’t read a great American novel in some time.
All This Time
Since quitting social media, I’ve had all this time to read. Last week, I finished The Talented Mr Ripley. Patricia Highsmith writes very fine sentences, good paragraphs, but is not much for chapters. Nonetheless, her capacity to identify the micro-incentives, micro-disappointments, and micro-delusions which happen at a nearly imperceptible level in the human heart wasContinue reading “All This Time”
Lately Taken With
It often happens that a single ambient record overtakes my interest for a whole season. Presently, I cannot get enough of Roger Eno’s Voices (1985).
New Worship
“It is not so much that modern men have ceased to believe in god as it is they have ceased to believe in transcendence. We still have gods, but they are immanent. They are here and now and nowhere else in history or in the future. Immanent gods require a culture of immanence, as well,Continue reading “New Worship”
Hungry
“Social media has excited our political metabolisms and we burn through a new cause like a bag of chips. Most French cheeses last longer than modern political movements.” -From Love What Lasts (Winter, 2020)
Say Something
Students: Mr. Gibbs, do you think the Church should have temporal power? Gibbs: Look, if you just want to hear me say something controversial, I am happy to do that. Student: Okay! Gibbs: Then I’ll do you one better. I think the Church should have spiritual power.
Love What Lasts: On The Art Of The 20th Century
“The 20th century witnessed a bifurcation in art, where “high art” became increasingly esoteric and “low art” became increasingly sensual. Over the course of the 20th century, high art and low art engaged in a game of chicken, wherein each side dared the other to greater extreme. The weirder high art became, the more sensualContinue reading “Love What Lasts: On The Art Of The 20th Century”
Introducing Sometimes Gibbs
I simply could not find one of the echo chambers which I had heard so much about.
