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Classical Educator | UChicago Basic Program | The Great Books as paths to formation, wisdom, and understanding what it means to be human.
Colorado, USA
Joined July 2025
Faith & Reflection✨ Tonight's Stack: Annals of Faith Books that shaped the way we understand God, the mysteries of His grace, and the journey of faith: Augustine - Confessions Aquinas - Summa Theologica Dante - The Divine Comedy Milton - Paradise Lost Boethius - Consolations
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Re-reading Pride and Prejudice never fails to delight me. "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents–Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you
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Celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this month by returning to Pride and Prejudice. A perfect December read.
What's your reading vibe for December? (cozy mysteries, holiday romances, comfort rereads, something else?)
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I love how Milton captures the inner life. Books give us space to think again.
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Small correction for the book stack: the Augustine volume pictured is City of God, not Confessions. 📚✨ (Still one of the greatest faith-shaping works ever written.)
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“And reasoning thus, she sought the mind’s relief in solitude, where best society is found in books, or meditation sweet." - Milton, Paradise Lost
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Reading Thucydides is a pleasure, especially when you find a powerful line like this. Here, Nicias is arguing against the Sicilian expedition, and underscores to the hubristic Athenians what leadership is for. “The virtue of men in office is briefly this, to do their country
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” -John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Side-by-Side Reads: Christian Epic Poets Dante – The Divine Comedy Milton – Paradise Lost Two epic journeys from darkness to hope. “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” – Paradise Lost
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Love this list, especially the reminder to read for wisdom. Reading for wisdom trains the soul to see what’s true and choose what’s good. The best books don’t just give us information. They teach us how to live. They help us become more fully human.
Author @RyanHoliday has read over 3,000+ books. Here are his 31 reading rules that he lives by: 1) It is not enough that you read. You have to read well. You have to read the right books. You have to figure out how to process and retain and of course apply what you read. As
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“God is good' therefore does not mean the same as 'God is the cause of goodness' or 'God is not evil' ; it means that what we call 'goodness' in creatures pre-exists in God in a higher way. Thus God is not good because he causes goodness, but rather goodness flows from him
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“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.” Dante - Inferno, Canto XXVI.
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Pick One Book 📘 Dante –– The Divine Comedy From being lost in the dark to finally seeing the light, Dante writes about a soul moving toward God. This is a pilgrimage that ends with “the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.” tolle lege
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“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way had been lost.” Dante – Inferno, Canto I
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This article makes a lucid, grounded case for why the liberal arts are more necessary than ever in a technology-driven world. And honestly, this is exactly the conversation we should be having about the future of the liberal arts.
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“The liberal arts will endure only if they again teach what democracy depends on: that the life of the mind is inseparable from the life of the citizen.” The Last Seminar
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I teach my students to read Plato while their parents calculate the ROI on a philosophy degree. Seventeen years of teaching at a liberal-arts college have shown me both the beauty and limits of the ol
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“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.” -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
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Pick One Book 📘 Boethius ––The Consolation of Philosophy When wealth, status, and power are taken away, where does true happiness come from? It’s found in the pursuit of wisdom and God’s unchanging character. tolle lege
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“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith." -Augustine, City of God
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