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October 2026

October 09, 2026

Why Classical Education Is a Conversation, Not a Curriculum

Come and Read: Joy in Classical Education When I was a little boy, Dad would...

September 2026

September 21, 2026

Does Classical Education Belong Only to the West?

Classical Education: Never A Peculiar Institution What does Jerusalem have to do with Aksum? Nairobi?...

September 16, 2026

Classical Education Must Teach Us to Make the Fries

To Discuss and Do: Make Fries Discussing tasty fries and the longing to eat them...

September 09, 2026

Rooted: Why Classical Education Needs Community

| Image courtesy of the author. Community Incarnates Classical Education I sometimes read from my...

September 02, 2026

Classical Education: Discussion for Everyone

The Discussion is for Everyone and Anyone I still miss Dr. Geier. I can close...

August 2026

August 25, 2026

Speaking Math: the Language of Classical Education

What Papaw Showed Me Papaw would take out his compass and show you how to...

August 15, 2026

Why Music Is the Heart of a Classical Education

The Music of the Spheres: Music Matters - A Personal Argument Music is classical education....

August 05, 2026

Classical Education and the Art of Dying Well

An Education for Paradise A Certainty Classical Education Cannot Ignore "Nobody is sure of much,"...

July 2026

July 24, 2026

An Education to Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before

Don't Educate Impractically Dad was very wise. He was talking to me once about education,...

July 22, 2026

The Classical Education That Marched Men to Their Deaths

An Education to Avoid Juggernaut Oxford and the colleges there, despite some more recent failures,...

July 20, 2026

Classical Education Needs to Level Up

The Level Up in the Education Called Classical Writer's Note: This is the first in...

July 07, 2026

Golden, Golden, Golden: My Mother’s Last Lesson

Getting to the Bottom of Things Mom taught me to "get to the bottom" of...

July 14, 2025

The Old Words Are Helpful

Dad is gone. I keep wanting to call him. I need his advice. He is there...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

When the Center Holds: A Tribute to My Father’s Legacy

Thankful That the Center Held I have seen the end, and in the end, the...

September 2024

September 21, 2024

Baby Anna Beans

Whim Wham, our brilliant grand, approached the water reverently. She was holding a can of...

July 2024

July 03, 2024

Yet I Love Her: History and the Church

Unless your mother was the Mother of God, then she will have had her faults....

July 02, 2024

Vain Repetition

Of all the vanities, the vanity of vain repetition may be the worst. I have...

July 01, 2024

History and Hidden Ethics and Philosophy

Beware hidden assumptions in histories. Too often one gets third rate philosophy the historian cannot...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

The Iceberg is There: Verbosity Cannot Defeat Reality

Reality opposed smashes the soul. The credentialed pass the ship as safe, after all, the...

June 29, 2024

Dangerously Credentialed Minds

The Reality Deniers Communism in the Soviet Union was dying. The evidence was everywhere, but...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

One Weeping Icon at Christmas is Enough

I saw an icon weep. I did. I can use a search engine and so...

December 14, 2023

Silence and Jollification

Christmas is coming and so we hush in hopeful anticipation. Anticipation right before a big...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

He Thought He was Right: Liberality Must Kiss Righteousness

My great-grandfather was once asked: "Brother Reynolds do you think you are right about everything?"...

June 14, 2023

The Power of Dissenting Societies: A Thought

Live joyfully. If we live by love, then we can build something good, true, and...

September 2022

September 26, 2022

You are God’s Joy

We are God’s joy. God loves us, all of us, despite our wandering far from...

May 2022

May 02, 2022

Leaders Needed: Higher Education

We stand at educational Armageddon and hire consultants for the Board. This is the state...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Gandalf, Magic, and Miracles

"You shall not pass." So says a college professor at this time of the term....

April 17, 2022

The Orthodox Moment: Education Kept in Safety for All Time

The City of God is kept in safety for all time: full of love, the...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The Silent Trumpet Sound

The trumpet is gone, no clear notes sound in our house. The first time I...

March 08, 2022

The Supreme Beauty of Truth and Christianity

To see correctly, even for a moment, is splendid. As a child, I was so...