Joshua Gibbs

Paradise Lost for Beginners Starts This Friday

In the next three months, I will teach Paradise Lost five times. I will teach it to three sections of sophomores at Veritas. I will teach it to Veritas parents on Tuesday nights in September. And I will teach it online for fourteen weeks through Gibbs Classical. If you are interested in taking the classContinue reading “Paradise Lost for Beginners Starts This Friday”

My Favorite Things: Summer 2022 Edition

This is what made the Summer of 2022 for me. 10. Wordle and Framed: I now start every morning with a cup of coffee and five minutes spent playing these two games. You really need a few people to share scores with to make this worthwhile, preferably friends you’re about on par with. 9.Continue reading “My Favorite Things: Summer 2022 Edition”

Talk To Me

“I don’t allow students to email me about anything which could be addressed in person. Students who don’t have the nerve to boldly ask adults for favors, opinions, or permission will be at a significant disadvantage when they enter their 20s. The only way to acquire such nerve is through practice.” -from “Do Not EmailContinue reading “Talk To Me”

Mid-Level Christian Intellectuals On Social Media

Christian thought leader on Twitter: I bought a new toothbrush today. *4000 likes* There is absolutely no way this level of affirmation for something so banal is possibly good for the soul of anyone purporting to offer spiritual guidance about anything to anyone.

“The Bear” Is Glorious

FX’s “The Bear”: Part “Parts Unknown,” part Jiro Dreams of Sushi, part “Chef’s Table.” Best new TV show of 2022.

Favorite Fall Records

15 years later, still one of my favorite fall records. There was a minute there where Ewan Pearson was making a bid to become the most diverse producer in popular music. This is some of my favorite work of his:

Why Denominations Matter

If you don’t have a great answer to the question, “Why do you go to that church?” then you also don’t have a great answer to the question, “Why do you go to church?” If you go to that church for shallow reasons, you go to church for shallow reasons. If that church and theContinue reading “Why Denominations Matter”

The Future Of American Law

Sayings

If it is not true today, it will not be true in “the future.”

Embracing Your Imperfections

Tom: I think it’s important for people to embrace their imperfections. Harry: Even racists? Tom: Racism isn’t an imperfection. It’s evil. Harry: What sort of imperfections did you have in mind? Tom: I don’t know. Ordering too much from the Pottery Barn website. Harry: You think it’s important that people embrace the fact they orderContinue reading “Embracing Your Imperfections”