Being in Front

By |2024-03-08T19:23:50-06:00March 3rd, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Education, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Wyoming Catholic College|

Our students read the greatest books of the tradition, a challenge to the brightest minds, and risk themselves repeatedly in conversation, until those who are seasoned “invariably deem it a special privilege to be in the front,” as General William Tecumseh Sherman said of veteran soldiers. Years ago, when my wife and I taught at [...]

God’s Truth

By |2024-02-24T21:37:57-06:00February 24th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Classical Education, Glenn Arbery, Liberal Learning, Timeless Essays, Truth, Wyoming Catholic College|

In the transcendence of God, the truth is not a collection of dispiriting facts about our meaningless emergence from chance combinations of matter, but justice and mercy and ultimate harmony. Our approach ought to be to reveal Who God is, not to close off the way to Him. At last week’s meeting of the Philadelphia [...]

Advent and Melancholy

By |2023-12-02T20:54:45-06:00December 2nd, 2023|Categories: Advent, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Glenn Arbery, Great Books, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

Nothing breaks through melancholy like a baby. During Advent, we wait for that moment of absolute newness that we need within but cannot muster, that moment when the whole of the divine nature, the whole meaning of universes beyond number, lies helpless before us. On Monday of this week, students met with me in the new [...]

James Joyce, John Senior, & the Illumination of the Modern World

By |2023-11-18T08:06:23-06:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christianity, Culture, John Senior, Modernity|

Reading James Joyce and John Senior together will illuminate the modern world and point toward a path of how to thrive within it. Both represent a quest for the real: one through the symbolic mediation of literature and the other through its poetic embodiment in our daily lives. John Senior is known as a cultural [...]

A World in Need of Re-Enchantment: A New Leader at Wyoming Catholic College

By |2023-11-11T08:26:35-06:00November 10th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Education, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Wyoming Catholic College|

We live in a world in need of re-enchantment; but re-enchanting love is rekindled in the hearts of people one at a time. To reclaim that sense of loving delight in God and the world, we need to give our students a break from the busyness and distraction that surrounds daily life, let them digitally [...]

John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

By |2023-11-11T08:34:52-06:00November 9th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Featured, John Senior|

John Senior’s great contribution was to forge a middle way between indoctrination and the chaos of complete relativism. Instead of indoctrinating students, the classical knowledge of a Christian culture provided the tools and the framework for true education. John Senior and the Restoration of Realism by Francis Bethel It was one of those serendipitous meetings that [...]

Poetry & Politics?

By |2023-10-25T05:58:29-05:00October 24th, 2023|Categories: Dante, Featured, Glenn Arbery, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Poetry, Timeless Essays, William Shakespeare, Wyoming Catholic College|

Great poetry can come from deep engagement with the problems of politics, but it is especially moving to see how exile—often the consequence of that engagement—subtly becomes the symbol of the condition of fallen man. Students at Wyoming Catholic College memorize many poems in the four years of the humanities curriculum, but few of the [...]

Let Them Be Born in Wonder

By |2023-11-09T10:32:52-06:00October 11th, 2023|Categories: Christian Humanism, Christianity, John Senior, Liberal Learning, Wyoming Catholic College|

We are made for the stars but rooted in the soil. We are made to seek spiritual realities, but we must use this world, this visible creation, to do so. How the brief life of a storied liberal arts program changed lives the world over. In 1967, at the age of forty-four, John Senior transferred [...]

Do Great Books Make Us Better?

By |2023-09-20T18:02:08-05:00September 20th, 2023|Categories: Glenn Arbery, Great Books, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

If books could make us better on their own, then we could read our way to perfect virtue. Do Great Books make us better? This question goes to the heart of what we do at Wyoming Catholic College. In an essay for The New Yorker early in December, the professor and writer Louis Menand reviews [...]

Intending the Unintended

By |2023-09-13T19:06:58-05:00September 13th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Glenn Arbery, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

What is the intention of a Great Books education? Does it need to make the student feel at every moment as though there were a palpable design upon him? I ask because making things “intentional” seems to have become something of a buzzword, even in spiritual matters. Guided tours can be a wonderful thing. I [...]

Silence: Seeing & Hearing God’s World

By |2023-08-22T19:06:30-05:00August 22nd, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Glenn Arbery, Poetry, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

Real silence (always recommended by the saints) allows us to escape our own conceptual frames and be open to the world as it is in God's first book. The world repeats itself, as it has done and will do, a little differently each time, each time worth seeing and hearing differently. Several years ago, in [...]

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