Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

“Monasteries were both more popular and more productive when they were harder to get into. The gatekeepers of classical schools should remind themselves of this fact every day before beginning their work.” -from “The Downside of Classical Christian Education’s Rising Popularity,” one of two forthcoming talks at the CiRCE 2021 National Conference Sign up forContinue reading “CiRCE 2021 National Conference Preview”

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is an ethic which assumes love is a teacher. A man’s intuitive care for himself must always be pushed outward, stretched farther. Our neighbors are not on the other side of the world, but physically close to us. Our neighbors are just beyond our own bodies. Love is a dilationContinue reading “4th Of July Meditation”

“A proverb does not support itself. Our lives justify great proverbs, and so the more a man examines his life, the more a collection of proverbs will seem to him like newspaper headlines that offer up-to-the-minute reports on the state of his own soul. These are the news sources worth following. Who cares that CNN’sContinue reading “Journalism Of The Soul: How To Read Proverbs”

The latest episode of Proverbial is about travel and opens with an extended meditation on why talking about the goodness of travel has become so difficult over the last ten years.

“One of the most interesting differences between progressives and traditionalists is their rival beliefs about personal responsibility. Progressive philosophy is chiefly concerned with changing society, which usually entails changing other people whether they like it or not. It is difficult to imagine a lone progressive individual living out a progressive worldview in a society otherwiseContinue reading “Tradition and Progress: How To Be Conservative All By Yourself”