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February 2020

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 02, 2020

Smuggling Morality into the Amoral: A reply to Jeff Williams

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

February 01, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic – Further Remarks on the Grounds for Morality (Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Guest Voice: Reading as a Pathway to Freedom (Jack Franicevich)

When you know bright people, sometimes they say things so well, you know other people...

January 16, 2020

On An “Essential Truth” in a Community

University education, financed by debt, without a coherent center, has lost the unified vision that kept it...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Ten Things You Must Avoid in Picking a College

Ten Things You Must Avoid in Picking a College College as I knew it is...

December 13, 2019

To Dream is Hopeful, to Do Divine

God never dreams, He is all do. Humans, created in God’s image, begin in hope, grow...

December 12, 2019

What’s happening at Edgestow? (A Parody of a Bit of That Hideous Strength)

That Hideous Strength In his prophetic novel on culture, particularly on the state of education,...

December 11, 2019

On Aunt Tilley and Christian Higher Education

“Aunt Tilley is coming,” he said and laughed. “Time to roll out the Christian stuff...

December 10, 2019

How to Sell Bragdon Wood: Lessons in Leadership from “That Hideous Strength”

To: President Al Cibiades RE: Need to sell “Bragdon Wood” From: Acting President Currey (New...

October 2019

October 23, 2019

Avoid Satanic versus Socratic Questions, Ask Good Questions Well, Even If the Answers . . . (John Milton)

God give me better questions so I can love You better. The way forward is...

October 16, 2019

Under the Plane Tree: Wisdom Needs Time

Discussion. The dialectic. The Socratic Method. The Way of Jesus. Call it what you wish,...

October 10, 2019

Education: Not Giving Sight to the Blind, Turning the Icon Toward the Original

Professors are not giving sight to the blind, but turning a soul made in the...

October 07, 2019

Threnody gone through Therapy? (A Thought From Republic)

As Autumn comes, I am happy, Christmas is coming, but I am also reminded of...

October 04, 2019

What to do when Socrates is gone?

The best teacher is not a machine, someone that can be replaced like a part...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

Deep Learning . . . 3 Things to Know and Do

Deep learning is when you hear, believe, and change. There are three things I learned from...

September 25, 2019

On Doing What We Know (Guest Voice: Jill Bergen)

I asked for guest voices and today I am pleased to introduce a voice that...

July 2019

July 19, 2019

The Love of Learning (Guest Voice Jake Carr)

I asked for new voices and Jake Carr stepped up . . . Mr. Carr...

July 10, 2019

Dialectic of Hope, Dialectic of the Prophet (Habakkuk)

There is hope: hope for all of us who see injustice first in ourselves (God...

July 05, 2019

Intellectual Impatience (Philosophy Helps!)

We are building a building and for that we need an architect, engineers, and other...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Thoughts on the End of the Year

At the end of this year, The Saint Constantine School saw success by any measure...

June 21, 2019

Ancient Witches VII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

Dido isn’t the only character in Vergil’s Aeneid who resorts to necromancy when she hits...

June 11, 2019

The Artful Knavery of the Intellectual Class Today

Too often education, even classical education, is training in pompous “assery:” training in the jargon...

June 10, 2019

Be Wary Of Learning Many Things (Heraclitus!)

Wisdom cannot be Googled. As a kid growing up, I did not have Google, but...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

Ancient Witches III (Guest Voice James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

May 20, 2019

The Enduring Truths Of Fairy Tales

One night my parents had a meeting, who knows what tedious committee work was up,...

May 05, 2019

Shield of Quintas II (Guest Post James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

May 03, 2019

Only One Person in Particular Surely in Hell?

The Non-Catholic More Catholic than Some Catholics One of my first college teaching jobs was...