Gardens in the Desert: Classical Educators in Local Community
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. – C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Community
The Necessity of the Imperfect Community (Inspired by Jayber Crow)
An interesting discussion popped up on my Facebook about some of the ideas we’ve been talking about on Close Reads as we work our way through Berry’s Jayber Crow. Here are some highlights. One of the big ideas that Berry is showing us in Part Two as he repeatedly presents community as a non-sentimentalized ideal, …
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Forgetting Remembering
“Cogito ergo sum.” These famous words from the philosopher René Descartes summarize his view, or maybe his thought experiment, on how we know. For Descartes, knowledge is knowledge if it originates in the thinker. Any knowledge that originates outside of the thinker must be doubted, questioned, examined, and reasoned by the thinker so as to …
He Came to His Own
Our Lord, Jesus Christ is not a specialist. He did not come to earth to do one project or to solve one problem and then go back to heaven. Christ is, as the Apostles John, Paul, and Peter all repeatedly assert and assume, the One in whom all things are held together. He is the …
Theme and Variation
On July 18th I stopped contemplating Harmony with about 250 colleagues, friends, and kindred spirits. On the 22nd, I drove up to the University of Kentucky for a week of Latin immersion, and from August 3-7 I was immersed even more deeply into the love of truth-seeking that is the CiRCE Apprenticeship. After each, I …
Be Afraid to Know Your Neighbors
Why real community is painful and sometimes tragic but always a beautiful thing