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Category Archives: Delusions of Grandeur
Something Further On The Rhetoric Stage Not Existing
It often happens that as I am working out some new idea, I post something and then delete it hours later when I realize there is far more to the idea than I initially estimated. Suffice to say, I intend to argue at length before the summer is over that–at least so far as highContinue reading “Something Further On The Rhetoric Stage Not Existing”
A Short Play About Dead Poets Society
Tom: Have you seen Dead Poets Society? Harry: No. Tom: It’s so good. There’s one scene where this teacher actually stands on a desk during class. He gets his students so pumped. Harry: No way! Tom: I know, right? Harry: Man, I wish one of my teachers had stood on a desk during class. Tom:Continue reading “A Short Play About Dead Poets Society”
Just A Horrifying Reminder
There is no way to bring out about real reform cheaply and with your ego intact. Real reform is always embarrassing and expensive. Also, someone needs to write a classical Christian education manifesto.
Business Or Ministry?
“This will always be a temptation facing institutions which are both business and ministry; sacrificing a little on the ministry side will do much for business, sacrificing a little on the business side will do much for ministry.”
Playlist For A Week In Atlanta
In Case I Get Hit By A Car Tomorrow And Do Not Have Time To Explain This
I had an epiphany this afternoon… I plan on organizing these thoughts into something more coherent over the next several months. Q. What is the fundamental between the masculine and the feminine? A. Aristotle proposes four causes: formal, final, efficient, and material. I propose that “the masculine” is the formal and final cause. “The feminine”Continue reading “In Case I Get Hit By A Car Tomorrow And Do Not Have Time To Explain This”
100 Days Of Dante: Canto XXX Of The Paradiso
My commentary on Canto XXX of the Paradiso for Baylor’s 100 Days of Dante project finally came out.
Faculty Development
If there’s no food and drink at your faculty development events, you’re not developing anything other than everyone’s desire to go home. Learn more this summer at the Gibbs Classical Online Summer Conference.
Steal These Jokes: On The Chris Rock/Will Smith Slap
“After the attack, which took place in the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Chris Rock’s mother Rosalie insisted he shelter with his uncle and auntie who live eighteen miles away in Bel Air.”