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Joshua Gibbs

Joshua Gibbs teaches online classes at GibbsClassical.com. He is the author of How To Be Unlucky, Something They Will Not Forget, and Blasphemers. His wife is generous and his children are funny.

After the LinkedIn TED Talk Bros Came to Classical Christian Education

You attend a classical education conference this summer and, while perusing the speaker biographies in the conference program, you come across the following: “Harge Manning is the founder of the Diluvian Consortium, a group of Christian thought leaders who specialize in dynamic vision forwarding, cognitive missional flexibility, core value development, servant viral marketing ethics, and

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The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show Ever (And Why It Matters To Classical Teachers)

When you think about the turn of the last millennium, you probably remember that whole Y2K thing, but there was another issue that troubled mankind during the leadup to January 1, 2000. It wasn’t nearly so vexing as the potential collapse of civilization, though I still think it fair to call it “a problem.” I’m

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Stop Pretending To Integrate History And Literature

While it’s possible (hypothetically) to integrate history and literature, I nonetheless present the following talking points about the typical ways in which these subjects are commonly “integrated.” It is one thing to claim that history and literature are “integrated” in a single class and another thing to explain what this means. Most teachers who teach

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Reflections On Reading “Pride & Prejudice” Nine Times In The Last Three Years

I’ve read some fine commentaries that helped me understand seemingly impenetrable works of classic literature, but the books I understand best are not the ones I’ve studied. Rather, they are the books I have read thirty times. If you really want to understand a classic, there’s really no substitute for rereading it three times every

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There’s A Good Reason The Christmas Season Keeps Getting Longer

When I was a child, I remember my father complaining about the fact that Christmas decorations were going up “the day after Thanksgiving.” These days, waiting that long strikes me as the height of monastic patience. Twenty years ago, Christmas decorations went up mid-November. Ten years ago, they went up November first. This year, I

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10 Years/10 Articles: A Brief Look at My Decade Writing for CiRCE

As of today, I have been blogging for The CiRCE Institute for one decade. My first article (“Are Democratic Ideals Compatible with Classical Education?”) was published on November 21, 2013, less than three weeks after I met Andrew Kern under a concrete gray sky in Grand Rapids. At that time I still considered myself a

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