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”
Category Archives: Delusions of Grandeur
Doing The Numbers: Suicide And Cigarettes
The average Christian condemns smoking far more vehemently than suicide, which accounts for the decline in smoking over the last twenty-five years, and the unprecedented rise in suicide.
Six Years
Tomorrow, for the sixth year in a row, I will be watching The Grand Budapest Hotel on New Year’s Day. Consider joining me in this important R-rated tradition.
Can/Will Happen To You, Too
What happens when you’re famous and conservative and let your kids have social media accounts? Ask Ted Cruz.
The Megachurching Of Classical Christian Education
“The average megachurch talks constantly about ‘taking over this town for Jesus.’ It’s a large scale cultural project with returns that can be easily measured. And the megachurch model is (apparently) successful, at least in the short run, which is what tempts classical Christian schools to borrow the megachurch ethos, aesthetics, and business model.” -fromContinue reading “The Megachurching Of Classical Christian Education”
Helicopter Crash, Snowplow Crash
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” ― John Wilmot
What Happens Next
Teacher: Have you been baptized? Student: Well, my metaverse avatar, which is Kermit the Frog dressed as the police officer from the Village People, was e-baptized at a service in a digital Dave & Busters. Does that count? Teacher: A baptism really needs to be a public profession of faith. Student: There were 43,000 peopleContinue reading “What Happens Next”
One Of The Most Generous Poems
Christmas Party At The South Danbury Church by Donald Hall December twenty-firstwe gather at the white Church festoonedred and green, the tree flashinggreen-red lights beside the altar.After the children of Sunday Schoolrecite Scripture, sing songs,and scrape out solos,they retire to dress for the finale,to perform the pageantagain: Mary and Joseph kneelingcradleside, Three Kings,shepherds and shepherdesses.Continue reading “One Of The Most Generous Poems”
Merch
From the Sometimes Gibbs shop. From the Gibbs Classical shop.
Thoughts On Homework
“The teacher who does not use class time well—the teacher who only needs five minutes to account for all the material a sick student missed in a sixty minute class—has no right to ever assign homework. Teachers who want their students to live full, rich lives have to steward their class time better than that.”Continue reading “Thoughts On Homework”
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 