New Literature 26 October 2020 New Novella Should be free for kindle, but let me know if you can't get it free and will try to get it to you.
backchannel 17 October 2020 Education in America's Public Schools Greetings, gentlemen. Recent affairs in the backchannel as of late lead me to "put to paper" a description of America's educational system from my own perspective, having now taught varied classes in its
backchannel 15 October 2020 Response to Jak and Apellus I greatly appreciate your reply to Apellus' post, along with Apellus for his original post and subsequent reply! I appreciate your response because it clarifies a few needs in my mind. Perhaps we
backchannel 7 October 2020 Could the Institute one day be.......a School? No really, think about it. Imagine...Logos Classical Academy...(cliche, I know.) Stephen: Headmaster/Chancellor Jacob: Dean of the Murdock College of Scientific Inventions for the propagation of anti-ignorance in all lands where
6 October 2020 A Letter to Apellus and Eleazar “Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive of the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very human impulses, the
Trivium 5 October 2020 Rhetoric in the 21st Century Any cursory interaction with the many forms in which one consumes media today might show one that words are not lacking. Words are not lacking, and, to some accounts, rhetoric isn't either. But
11 August 2020 #11 - Avicenna and Epicureanism: Truth? New Atheism. Left Behind Theology. What is Avicenna's Proof of the Truthful, and in what sense did he mean something was true? Today's show interviews Stephen McClung on his perspective on Avicenna and Epicurus, along with their respective beliefs place in the present culture.
3 August 2020 # 10 - Sidelights Episode #3: Art, Archetypes, and Religion On today's program, the discussion centers around various works of art and artists, the role of such in society, and how such relates to current and future affairs, religious devotion, and the craft of artistry as applied to writing.
27 July 2020 #09 - Metaphysics and Other Vices The perceptual capacity of animals and humans differ in the endless search for the source, the answer to questions. Is any of this clawing at the heaven's truly helpful?
20 July 2020 #08 - Sidelights Episode #2: The Problem of Evil, Flawed Education, the Freedom Responsibility In today’s episode, Jacob and Brandon bring sidelight topics that stuck out to them from the past few episodes. The problem of evil and the flaws in the educational system are discussed.
13 July 2020 #07 - Aquinas ad Astra The greatest theologian that ever lived, according to some, sought to answer every attack on his faith, as well as provide the human mind tangible proof of the divine's existence. He gave five proofs for God in his famous seminal work Summa Theologica.
backchannel 9 July 2020 A Review of Apellus' WIP, Reconstruction As humbly as may be do I venture now to offer my own perspectival thoughts regarding the echo of the infinite which is Apellus' WIP, Reconstruction, a work in which we all have
28 June 2020 If ye love me... A meditation on the church's response in some areas to COVID-19, and what might be the path forward for us.
22 June 2020 The Inimitable Upness of Being Monologue to be presented to the esteemed members of the Positive Perspectives book club on June 22nd 2020.
Philosophy 7 April 2020 L'Aphorisme Verisme II "Wisdom considers the end of all things before all things work towards the End."
backchannel 9 February 2020 Juvenilia: Ascending the Tree of Thought C = D Is such an equivocation possible? Is it possible that a person's chief aim may equal variable D, the Good, or the acquisition thereof? Socrates seemed to believe that such a thing
2 February 2020 Where Thunder Rumbles: Of a Rumor of Angels “The universe has a divine soul of order, which soul is moral, being also the soul within the soul of man...As much as if it were a God.."
backchannel 6 January 2020 Identity/Trivium Academy - Part 3 Here's where we stand presently. Non-outward facing: "To educate toward literacy, that the Gospel's vehicle in the English tongue may travel forward with power, clarity, and efficiency" Outward facing: "The men of Trivium
Book Club 25 November 2019 The Great Man and His Words "Men may not be great of themselves, but their words, proceeding from the systems they follow, make them so..."
25 July 2019 To the Original Four I claim the status of the man who sees his evil and realizes his plight, and this must be my last word to you all for some time. I am no longer a division between Vox Veritas and Brandon Moore.
Philosophy 21 July 2019 Seneca and Timothy on the Nature of True Virtue Monologue given on July 7th to the esteemed members of the Positive Perspectives Book Club.
Philosophy 18 May 2019 Juvenilia: Nature as a Transcendent Language "To only accept as true that which I incontrovertibly know to be so..."