At this point, “I attend church virtually” means “I don’t attend church.” It is the responsibility of reasonable Christians everywhere to make sure that “virtual” church attendance does not become a socially acceptable substitute for regular, actual church attendance. The problem with virtual church attendance is not that virtual things don’t count, for if itContinue reading “Virtual Church Attendance Does Not Count”
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
Five Questions To Ask Before You Take A Job A Classical School
“Question One: Is this the sort of school where the children of board members get away with murder?” –my latest for CiRCE
Playlist: Spring Comes Early This Year
This one is collaborative, so after you get a feel for it, add whatever seems most fitting.
Why Young People Bristle At The Expression “The Real World”
The latest episode of Proverbial is “The Real World” and aims to explain why young people roll their eyes at the expression “the real world,” why youth is glorious, and why they shouldn’t roll their eyes at the expression. If you’re a long time listener of the show, this one might be fun to listenContinue reading “Why Young People Bristle At The Expression “The Real World””
Reformation
Every movement acknowledges that there are people not yet in the movement who ought to be. But it must also acknowledge there are people within the movement that ought not to be. If classical Christian education is a movement, we must confess that too much time has been spent on the former and too littleContinue reading “Reformation”
Boundless Respect
“People are all more or less materialists today, for they are the heirs of the nineteenth century. They need only be shown some crude mimicry of ‘mental’ events in nature or in instinct, and they will fancy that the ‘mental’ has been explained. It is whatever is lower that we take to be more real.”Continue reading “Boundless Respect”
Faking It
A feigned care for the poor has brought as much suffering on the world as poverty itself. It is not a sin to be poor, but it is a sin to pretend to pity the poor, and the wages of sin is death.
The Medieval Blacksmith Shop
It took Beatrice and me about two weeks to finish it.
Five Questions To Ask Every Teaching Candidate
“By now, there is little point asking teaching candidates to write a personal philosophy of education. Anyone who has spent ten minutes browsing classical school websites can cobble together an adequate series of statements about virtue, the “image of God,” and the seven liberal arts. Here are five better questions to ask.” -“Five Questions ToContinue reading “Five Questions To Ask Every Teaching Candidate”
Denis De Rougemont
“It is only “silly” questions that can enlighten us; for behind whatever seems obvious lurks something is not.” -Denis De Rougemont, Love in the Western World
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 