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 page, the martial …
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 backhoe. My first response …
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 about this article. His most recent …
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 institutional bones, and to turn …
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 sophistry, illusion, and …
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 they are always …
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 relation to what the speaker up front is actually …
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 resources appear to be limitless. The extractors have …
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 difference to the battle whether or not you take them. …
Making Bricks and Mortar Stronger
One of the exciting things that Logos Online is doing is creating video classes that can serve bricks and mortar schools. The online revolution as an educational resource is not just for home-schoolers. A day school can supplement the curriculum this way as well. Click here for a video clip sampler. Logos Online School …