"Oscar said, 'I take that to mean the ability to play gracefully with ideas.' I think that's disappearing from our culture." - Stephen Fry at @munkdebate
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The Greek word "logos" was first used by Heraclitus and most famously used in the prologue to St John's Gospel. Aristotle, however, uses it to mean "reasoned discourse." Reasoned discourse: Where can it to be found today? #reason #discourse #discussion books.google.com/books?id=Zy…
We all have these little "oughts" in our mind, about what we think we should do. (The difference between "should" and "ought" for another time). Most of them have nothing to do with the moral law or the virtues. They are phantom "oughts". Fling them off, and feel the release.
You know you’re an Episcopalian when on the feast day of Saint Francis you hear the priest blessing dogs named Chester, Baxter, and Tucker. #episcopalian #saintfrancis
It's easy to mistake becoming more conservate with being more like Christ. Growth comes not only from wanting to hold on to what has been, and to preserve it, but to become "like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is #new and what is #old.” #disciples
A Jehovah's Witness just knocked on my door, but he gave up too fast! I said I already go to a church, and he said "Oh that's great that you have your own spirituality. Bye." What?! Is that the LA version of a JW? I was ready to tussle over the Athanasian Creed, line by line.
6 weeks and 6 days before 9/11, I was in the WTC North Tower at Windows on the World. 49 days apart. So strange to think of it, looking back. It could have been another day, another set of people. I could have been me. #NeverForget them.
#September11 #WTC #NYC #USA
“In Matthew’s Gospel, Joseph of Arimathea lays Jesus in his own tomb. What must it have been like to see another laid in your place…”
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#HolySaturday #Triduum
Image: Holbein, Dead Christ in the Tomb
I started some planning for the new year, and then saw today's Daily Office reading: "You who say, ‘Tomorrow we will go to such and such...doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring..." Ha! Good point. I can chill a bit. #NewYear2026 #BCP
"To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ" (Col 1:2a). Paul uses ἁγίοις (saints), a word for sacred objects in Greek religion, to describe people. Does Christianity relocate the sacred from objects to persons? What might this imply? #Colossians #BiblicalGreek #humandignity
Are "conservationism" and "sustainability" the same thing? Close cousins? One term used by traditionalists and the other by progressives? Middle ground here?
Alumni organizations should be run by alumni. No hired guns for Director of Alumni Relations positions. #schools #colleges #universities
That was the first time I've ever heard of Lorenzo Sewell. I don't know anything about him, but that felt like a mockery of Dr King. I feel ill. #drking #mlkday2025 #delusion #InaugurationDay #civilreligion #MartinLutherKingJrDay
“…poetry replaces grammar, gospel replaces law, longing transforms obedience, as gradually as the tide lifts a grounded ship.”
Excerpt From
Weight of Glory
C. S. Lewis
#law #grace #motivation #maturity #cslewis
"I was born condemned to see both sides of a question. And when you're damned that way, the questions multiply, until the end, they're all questions and no answers." Robert Ryan as Larry Slade in The Iceman Cometh.
#reading #relativism #truth #robertryan #theicemancometh
"The liberal arts are arts because they involve production of some kind. You don't have an art if there is no production involved."
- Stephen Cortright, President of the Albertus Magnus Institute
#liberalarts #arts #production
"The accumulation of facts is mere information and not worthy to be called education." - M. Joseph
Why did they give me so many textbooks in school? Was that an education? What went wrong?
Was #modernism in #education during the #industrialage was a #rejection of the #classics?
"The utilitarian or servile arts enable one to...earn a living. The liberal arts, by contrast, teach one how to live." - Miriam Joseph
Pic: "Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts" by Dennis Jarvis
#liberalarts #trivium #medieval #education #liberaleducation #free
ALT Photo: "France-003292 - Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts" by Dennis Jarvis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Insiders create the narrative. Outsiders can't. They aren't heard. You won't get the truth until you talk to those who are excluded.
Missing truths lie outside.
#insiders #outsiders #excluded #castout #statusquo
Image: The migrants arrived in great numbers. 1940–41, MOMA, NY.
ALT Image: The migrants arrived in great numbers. 1940–41, Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy
Do you wish you had had a classical, liberal arts education, but didn't?
#liberalarts #classicaleducation #classics #education
People often think it's too late to get a classical education. However, not only is that not true, but getting a classical education later in life, after school/college, is delightful. Why? No grades, tests, exams, GPAs, SATs, or pressure from parents. Just because you want it.
The question, then, is how do you get a classical education? Well, that's easier now than ever, and open to just about anyone anywhere. More on this later - but this is the time to carve your path. #education #classics