I recently published an article over at The Consortium Blog that offers a simple solution to one of the most enormous and complex bugbears facing society today. The hobgoblin I have in mind is not one of your typical most-wanted public enemies that dominate conversations in the public square. In one particular way, it is a […]
Seven Characteristics of a Classical Christian Education
In this post, I want to answer the question, What is a Classical Christian Education? But first I want to mention that under the fairly broad umbrella of the expression, Classical Christian education (CCE), there are likely as many micro-persuasions as there are eyes on Argos. And this is true for at least three reasons. […]
Oratio – The First Sunday in Lent
O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days, and forty nights: give us grace to use such Abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory who livest, and reignest, with the Father and the holy […]
Oratio – Saint Augustine, The Last Sunday After Epiphany
Grant us, even us, O Lord, to know you, and love you and rejoice in you. And if we cannot do these perfectly in this life, let us, at least, advance to higher degrees every day, till we can come to do them in perfection. Let the knowledge of you increase in us here, that […]
Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust (Or, If Samuel Beckett Wrote the Story of Job)
“There is nothing more to be done!” exclaimed Gogo, dramatically plopping himself into a pile of ashes in the middle of the stage. The noxious dust, displaced by the weight of his body, exploded into a large cloud engulfing his wife, Didi, and his three friends, Vlad, Pozzo, and Lucky, who having come to comfort […]
Sola Deo Gloria
“Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of […]
Fellow Works and Not Ashamed of the Gospel
“Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord. Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.” -Romans 16:21–23 By including the greetings […]
Pax Christi
“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” -Romans 16:20 Paul concludes his exhortation concerning their unity—to be wise concerning those thing that are good and innocent toward those things that are evil—with a promise and a pray. He reassures them with […]
Oratio – Sexagesima or The Second Sunday Before Lent
O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing, that we do, mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all Adversity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Wise and Innocent
“For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.” -Romans 16:19 Immediately upon warning them of the scandal makers, the wolves so to speak, he commends them for their obedience lest they […]