So then, the problem with ignorance is that when you don't know, you frequently don't know what it is you don't know. A common trope among our leaders and pontificators is found in the phrase "the greatest national security threat we face is . . ." followed whatever it is they … [Read more...]
Build. Fight.
I would like to introduce you to an important campaign just launched by New St. Andrews College. First, please take a moment to click here and watch the video. I will either wait here, or come along with you to watch the video again with you. It's that good. Now that you are … [Read more...]
Discussion on Music Education: Teaser Trailer
Recovering Music in Christian Education | Teaser from Roman Roads Media on Vimeo. … [Read more...]
Children of the Rainbow
As some of you may have noticed, this last weekend I put up a post that went kind of nuts. I am talking about Tolle, Leg It, in which I encouraged Christian parents to take this particular rainbow moment as an appropriate time to remove their kids from the government schools, … [Read more...]
A 7 Point Elevator Pitch in a Tall Skyscraper
I want to take a moment of your time to explain why you or someone close to you really ought to consider attending New St. Andrews College this fall. First, we provide a rigorous liberal arts education in the classical Christian tradition. It is important to note that the … [Read more...]
Tolle, Leg It
In the aftermath of the Obergefell decision by the Supreme Court, a lot of Christian parents are reeling. They know they must do something, but what can they do? The decision was so high-handed, so arbitrary, so insolently rendered, that it would be easy to assume that there is … [Read more...]
Masculinity at College
The following represents the gist of the remarks I made at NSA’s weekly Disputatio last Friday, September 19, 2014. What does it mean when NSA makes a point of emphasizing guy things? What is the point of that? I am referring to the presence of rugby and dirt on the NSA web … [Read more...]
Pardon My French
Apparently in response to my engagement with him, Gary North has written a bit more on classical Christian education. He was already down in a hole with his very own shovel, and instead of heeding the adage to -- when in such circumstances -- stop digging, he decided to hire a … [Read more...]
North Heads South
Gary North periodically takes a shot at classical Christian education. This would be fine, and no one in the CCE movement should object to it. Who does not want to warmly greet a hale and hearty interlocutor? However, it does not follow from this but there's nothing to object … [Read more...]
Moved and Seconded
There are two problems that contribute to mission drift. Well, there are more than just two, but there are two that represent, as Newton might put it, were he here, opposite and equal errors. One is the error of turning over the reins before the vision is deep in the … [Read more...]
The Rhetoric Trap
Quintilian defines rhetoric as the art of a good man speaking well. Before getting into that, we need to address a problem that sometimes arises with bookish sorts. As we do this we also have to deal with the problem of doing this in our postmodern age, which is an age of … [Read more...]
The Paideia Principle
The Christian faith is a religion of world conquest, and no, not that kind of world conquest. If we do not believe this, then every form of cultural engagement will be simply a form of slow surrender. It is the way of compromise. You can always tell this kind of person because … [Read more...]
The Vision Handoff
Pre-Introduction One of the problems with having a very efficient ACCS staff is that they request outlines from the speakers long before some of the speakers have any idea what they are going say. That means that you get a rudimentary outline, often bearing very little … [Read more...]
Grape Twizzle
Eric Hoffer once noted the trajectory of institutions -- first a movement, then a business, and finally a racket. As it happens, higher education in North America is deep into the racket phase. They have perfected the process of extracting money from the great American sap, whose … [Read more...]
Hall of Tyrannus Online
The apostle Paul was a strategic thinker. He understood the concept of a "decisive point," which is a point in the enemy's line which is simultaneously stratetgic and feasible. No sense attacking places that cannot be taken. No sense taking places which make absolutely no … [Read more...]
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