Joshua Gibbs

The Troparion of the Mediocre Saint Bob

Comic, but by no means a joke. This is wonderful. “By not cursing in rush hour traffic, thou hast found the way to divine contemplation/ And by working nine to five at a mind numbing desk job for twenty years to feed thy family thou hast broken the snares of the enemy/ By not judgingContinue reading “The Troparion of the Mediocre Saint Bob”

Leadership training is just Queer Studies for straight white guys.

“The same people who criticize Feminist Studies and Queer Studies for being fake also tend to treat Leadership as a serious academic matter, even though the trajectory and justification of Leadership is basically indistinguishable from every ‘Identity Studies’ major of the last thirty years. Leadership is just Queer Studies for straight white guys.” -from “LeadershipContinue reading “Leadership training is just Queer Studies for straight white guys.”

Oh, Lord, We Live In A Society

Proudly center-right theologians all got the memo to make a lot of “not political,” steely-eyed, vaguely prophetic observations and pregnant Biblical allusions on Twitter today.

This Was My October

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Pauly Shore, Classical Christian School Headmaster

Teacher: Can we talk? Board chair: Sure. Teacher: I’m here on behalf of a group of teachers who are concerned about your decision to make former MTV-VJ and Encino Man star Pauly Shore the headmaster of this school. Board chair: I don’t understand. What’s the problem? Teacher: He doesn’t have a classical bone in hisContinue reading “Pauly Shore, Classical Christian School Headmaster”

Big Boys!

In my experience, fully grown middle management enjoy using the word “pivot” about as much as eighth grade boys love an opportunity to say “bleed out,” “fubar,” “first to know, first to go,” or any other expression they can crib from Navy Seals. It makes them feel so grown up.

New Poetry: Potluck

Beside the long table of a church potluck a blind man shuffles by with a seeing man at his side the seeing man holds a plate describes the foods and no matter what he says the blind man replies oh that sounds good chicken salad oh that sounds good macaroni oh that sounds good greenContinue reading “New Poetry: Potluck”

For All The Teachers Who Are Cynical About The Classical Movement

“When I say that ‘nine out of ten administrators’ will make teachers apologize for whatever parents are upset about, I mean it. I mean that a full ten percent are going to hold out for real justice and common sense. Ten percent! That’s pretty good! It’s decent! There are good classical schools out there, and they’re run byContinue reading “For All The Teachers Who Are Cynical About The Classical Movement”

Saint Nikolai Velimirovich’s Prayer For Children

O All-plenteous Lord Jesus Christ, who wast once even Thyself a child and who used to love and bless children, have mercy upon the children of our time and save them—so that unbaptized children may be baptized, and so that baptized children may be strengthened in their faith in Thee, who art Truth eternal, andContinue reading “Saint Nikolai Velimirovich’s Prayer For Children”