“While progressives have great contempt for the past, they often have a more accurate sense of the past’s worth than conservatives do. Naïve and unrefined conservatives are sometimes willing to sell off huge tracts of the past at cut rates, but progressives who buy up the past never underestimate its worth. Because traditional things areContinue reading “Heirlooms”
Category Archives: Love What Lasts
Lecture: How Should Christians Watch Movies?
On the evening of Thursday, April 22nd, at 8:00pm EST, I will give a lecture entitled “How Should Christians Watch Movies?” The lecture will include readings from Love What Lasts, my forthcoming book from The CiRCE Institute. As per usual, the lecture will not be recorded. While there is a good deal of conversation amongContinue reading “Lecture: How Should Christians Watch Movies?”
Finally Something New
I have never (ever) heard anything like this. Uncanny, unearthly, overwhelming. Something new is almost always something old.
Bad Taste Is Its Own Punishment
“Modern beliefs about politics, church government, democracy, and so forth are all neatly and appropriately reflected in modern literature, modern music, and modern liturgies. We do not deserve a better culture than the one we have. Every culture is perfectly suited to the music it produces, the churches it builds, and the poems it writes.Continue reading “Bad Taste Is Its Own Punishment”
Free Lecture: Love What Lasts
“While some Christians still prefer worldview analysis as a cultural hermeneutic, worldview analysis has largely been replaced by cultural engagement. With the ascendance of Emergent Christianity in the years following the World Trade Center attacks, worldview reductionism fell out of fashion and young Christian essayists and bloggers adopted a softer approach to analyzing secular films.Continue reading “Free Lecture: Love What Lasts”
Ranked
I find Velazquez’s waterseller one of the noblest, most inspiring men ever painted.
A Simple Difference
The modern parent believes that the best way to teach a child responsibility is to give the child a number of costly gifts and tell the child not to ruin or break the gifts. The classical parent believes the best way to teach responsibility is to require a child to perform tasks that are productiveContinue reading “A Simple Difference”
After Denis Villeneuve, Christian Petzold Is The Most Exciting Filmmaker Alive
Phoenix (2014) is about marriage, plain and simple.
Preview
Thursday night: the dangers of Patreon intellectuals, how the wellness industry has spread into private education, the feel-good flattery of bloggers whose ad revenue depends on telling everyone, “Society demands too much of people like you,” and more. Sign up for the GibbsClassical.com mailing list for a link to “Intellectual Honesty in an Age ofContinue reading “Preview”
Sing Night And Day
This song is overwhelmingly beautiful. Britten does more in these one hundred seconds than many other competent composers can accomplish in forty minutes.
