Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

New Year’s Eve, on the other hand, was originally a pagan holiday. And still is, sort of.

“A Plato and Augustine school which bans smart phones, social media, and has no sports program really doesn’t have much in common with a Plato and Augustine school that allows all three.” -from a forthcoming barn burner for CiRCE

This isn’t the sort of thing you’re excited to watch at the outset, but give it ten minutes or so and you’ll be hooked.

Couple things. The Gospel story of Christ’s birth is what the story of Exodus was always pointing to. The story of Exodus is about God delivering an enslaved people from a tyrant and rescuing His bride. Die Hard is the story of a man, John McClane, who delivers people held hostage by the tyrant HansContinue reading “Yes, Virginia, “Die Hard” Is A Christmas Movie”

“I can’t help but feeling the Harry Potter series was meant for the best students, that it was confirmation all the curious little things they’d noticed about school were actually curious, and all their suspicions that something more was going on at school than met the eye were wholly justified.”  -from my latest for CiRCE

““Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over.And every origin is bloody.” ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila