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March 2020

March 10, 2020

What We Fear (Plagues and Dracula)

What we love defines our best possibilities and what we fear our worst. Love, desire, can be fuel...

March 09, 2020

Academy Scholar and Holy Fool: On the Wisdom of the Uncredentialed

By the grace of God I am a Christian, by my deeds a great sinner,...

March 08, 2020

The God of Music: William Shakespeare, A Christian’s Song of Worship

Just now when we are once again being asked to choose between secularism, killer of millions...

March 07, 2020

The Birth of Shakespeare Out of the Spirit of Music (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

Great authors such as Shakespeare should be read and heard in their own voice, yet...

March 06, 2020

On God and Mockery

Growing up, there was always the kid who would roll his eyes at anything. If you liked Star...

March 05, 2020

Reality and “Reason”- Give Reality a Vote

Being sensible, we are all for reason and the sane wish to live taking reality into...

March 04, 2020

Nicodemus Oppie: Our Cowboy Poet

This is the true story of Nicodemus Oppie: Cowboy Poet. Recently in describing my childhood,...

March 03, 2020

Education in a Work Centered World

American entertainment has reflected over the last few decades a shift from the family centered...

March 02, 2020

Affluenza and Education

I am from West Virginia, a part of the United States with a proud culture,...

March 01, 2020

Terminal Boredom as Enemy of Education

Technology allows me to travel with hundreds of books downloaded on my mobile. There are...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Don’t Panic! Educate!

Do not panic, educate. This is good general advice for every time, even this time...

February 28, 2020

Down with Argumentum Ad Snobbinem! (Guest Voice: Dr. Eric Holloway)

Some rhetorical devices come at a cost. A recent series of guest posts aroused the...

February 27, 2020

“Pandemic” or Words That Frighten Us: Keep Calm, Carry On

Keep calm. Carry on. Be careful about words and how they can roil us. I...

February 26, 2020

The Story Will Save Education

Much was anticipated long before the coming of the Christ by the philosopher Plato. He...

February 25, 2020

Wonder and False Wonder

The just live by faith. This is the Orthodox, classical, Christian school: faithful to what...

February 24, 2020

Full of Wonder

The tension between two things we have good reason to think might be true causes...

February 23, 2020

The Pitiable End of a Noble Sort of Secularism (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

When you argue with a friend, you try to be charitable, understand where he is...

February 22, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: In Summary (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 21, 2020

Plato and Basil: Athens and Jerusalem in Education

Plato gave the ancient world the form of dialectic education in his writings, especially his...

February 20, 2020

Embracing the Tension: Education against Monomania

We have souls in bodies. This duality is difficult to live. Our bodies and our...

February 19, 2020

The Tension in a Good Education

There is a tension in classical, Christian education and this tension is both why our...

February 18, 2020

The Ark of Education

The Church can be the ark of education: taking scholarship and learning into the future...

February 17, 2020

Universal Education: the Light Knows No True Barriers

Who should be educated? The liturgical life of the Church is an education of every...

February 16, 2020

Christian School, not Church School? The Eastern Solution

Theological education was less a product of the theological schools and more in the monastic...

February 15, 2020

One Body, Two Heads: the Image Education Needs

The Oracle of Delphi commanded “know thyself,” but this meant merely to consider our smallness...

February 14, 2020

Too Brittle for the World (In Memoriam)

Our pain, my pain, your pain, some we caused, some I caused, pain is real. What...

February 13, 2020

Love is Hidden (Jane Eyre)

Love is the goal, getting to absolute romance is hard. If I could pick anybody to...

February 12, 2020

AOC and I were wrong (and why it should or should not matter)

The other day Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez conflated the names of two economists “John Maynard Keynes”...

February 10, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part II (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 09, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part I (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...