Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

“Teacher: Can we talk about Oliver?  Principal: What has he done this time?  Teacher: Today, just a lot of the same small stuff.   Principal: Then what’s the problem?  Teacher: I know that re-enrollment contracts are going out in a couple weeks and I wanted to know if you’re planning on inviting Oliver to come backContinue reading “Is A School “Giving Up” On Students It Expels?”

Donostia anchovy stuffed green olives: for a memorable martini. Torres brand foie gras potato chips: according to the label, made with real foie gras. Primo specialty foods Blackberry Serrano Preserves: the best savory jam I’ve ever tasted. This Caesar dressing is many orders of magnitude better than every other Caesar dressing. Divina grilled green olives:Continue reading “Foods I Recommend”

This playlist is fifteen hours long and I’ve been putting it on shuffle and letting it run all day, all week.

It has been the better part of a decade since I was sufficiently dialed into new stuff that I could make convincing lists of the best movies of the year, the best television shows, and so forth. Instead, here’s a list of what made my year good, some of it new, some of it old.Continue reading “Best of 2024: What Made My Year”

“With the terrible place we’re at historically and with climate change and all that, I don’t know, do you really think it’s ethical to bring another cat into the world?”

“Say It Right” is the latest episode of “In the Trenches,” and this time we’re talking about classical Christian cliches: what they are, where they come from, how they take over, why they make us weak, and what to do about it. It’s inevitable that a strong movement or institution will create cliches. In thisContinue reading “Classical Christian Cliches”

Given the way the terms are presently used, Eastern Orthodoxy is more “low church” than “high church.” If you walked into a 90 member Baptist church in Podunk, Kentucky on a Sunday morning and told a long-time member named Tina, “So, your liturgy is pretty low church, huh?” she wouldn’t have a clue what youContinue reading “Eastern Orthodoxy Isn’t High Church”

While I think Steve Coogan is the cleverest man alive, I think Chilly Gonzales is a close second.

“The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of socialist programs. What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.” ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila