New Saint Andrew's Celebratio!

I have been privileged and blessed enough to be able to attend the New Saint Andrew's Celebratio and Grace Agenda, September 14th-17th. This is an event for prospective students, as well as current students and adults. I think I'll be attending the following events:

Future Makers

Douglas Wilson

Love Makers

Justin Holcomb

Man Makers

Ben Merkle

Peace Makers

Toby Sumpter

Trouble Makers

N.D. Wilson

Do Gay Rights Conflict With Conservative Christian Values?

A debate between Douglas Wilson and R. Clarke Cooper

Sit-In On NSA Class

Crisis of Masculinity

Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson interviews Ben Merkle and N.D. Wilson

I'll try to take notes on each session, and I'll be sure to post any notes and pictures I get. I hope ya'll enjoy them!

Nota Bene: I got the picture for this post directly from the NSA homepage. 

Not all rigor is mortis.

Not all rigor is mortis. Though, to be honest, most of our best teachers are dead.

Augustine, Calvin, Ambrose, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Chesterton. All dead.

The Liberal Arts are a bloody business. And people aren't the only casualties. Languages have died. Cities- gone. Libraries- burned by insecure bearded invaders. Don't even ask about the arts. Or Byzantium.

But the history of the Western world isn't over. We're standing in it. Standing on it. The same ancient wars are being waged and the same enemies are entrenched outside the walls of the City of God. They're even wearing the same face paint. This is no time to mourn or go wobbly.

We're not dad yet. We're in the thick of it. Rigor vitae. Break out the bread. Pour the wine. And when we do join the saints beyond the fray, we'll have left others behind, trained, eager, laughing, ready for their turn.

-New Saint Andrews College (And I'd bet my life that it was N. D. Wilson that wrote it for them.)