M.F. Davidson

"Oscar said, 'I take that to mean the ability to play gracefully with ideas.' I think that's disappearing from our culture." - Stephen Fry at @munkdebate

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

The Greek word "logos" was first used by Heraclitus and most famously used in the prologue to St John's Gospel. Aristotle, however, uses it to mean "reasoned discourse." Reasoned discourse: Where can it to be found today? #reason #discourse #discussion https://t.co/wAtwLb8udW

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

“In Matthew’s Gospel, Joseph of Arimathea lays Jesus in his own tomb. What must it have been like to see another laid in your place…”

https://t.co/uaRkUwesYY

#HolySaturday #Triduum

Image: Holbein, Dead Christ in the Tomb

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

I started some planning for the new year, and then saw today's Daily Office reading: "You who say, ‘Tomorrow we will go to such and such...doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring..." Ha! Good point. I can chill a bit. #NewYear2026 #BCP

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ" (Col 1:2a). Paul uses ἁγίοις (saints), a word for sacred objects in Greek religion, to describe people. Does Christianity relocate the sacred from objects to persons? What might this imply? #Colossians #BiblicalGreek #humandignity

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

Are "conservationism" and "sustainability" the same thing? Close cousins? One term used by traditionalists and the other by progressives? Middle ground here?

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

Alumni organizations should be run by alumni. No hired guns for Director of Alumni Relations positions. #schools #colleges #universities

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

That was the first time I've ever heard of Lorenzo Sewell. I don't know anything about him, but that felt like a mockery of Dr King. I feel ill. #drking #mlkday2025 #delusion #InaugurationDay #civilreligion #MartinLutherKingJrDay

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

@johnrushx Yes!!

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

@Lewis_Brackpool So sad! I was just down there last month. The (financial) market-class has shut down the (working) market-class. Shameful.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

@bsb1945 I just listened to your conversation with Alan Cornett at Cultural Debris. Got the Charlie Brown's America for my Dad's birthday.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

@bsb1945 I just saw the musical last weekend - and it brought up all the memories of seeing Back to the Future when was in Jr High school. I love seeing the story keep on in new forms, where people who didn't grown up seeing it, still experience the past coming forward.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

“…poetry replaces grammar, gospel replaces law, longing transforms obedience, as gradually as the tide lifts a grounded ship.”

Excerpt From
Weight of Glory
C. S. Lewis

#law #grace #motivation #maturity #cslewis

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"I was born condemned to see both sides of a question. And when you're damned that way, the questions multiply, until the end, they're all questions and no answers." Robert Ryan as Larry Slade in The Iceman Cometh.

#reading #relativism #truth #robertryan #theicemancometh

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"The liberal arts are arts because they involve production of some kind. You don't have an art if there is no production involved."

 - Stephen Cortright, President of the Albertus Magnus Institute

#liberalarts #arts #production

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"The accumulation of facts is mere information and not worthy to be called education." - M. Joseph

Why did they give me so many textbooks in school? Was that an education? What went wrong?

Was #modernism in #education during the #industrialage was a #rejection of the #classics?

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"The utilitarian or servile arts enable one to...earn a living. The liberal arts, by contrast, teach one how to live." - Miriam Joseph

Pic: "Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts" by Dennis Jarvis

#liberalarts #trivium #medieval #education #liberaleducation #free

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

The status quo is inherently unjust.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

Insiders create the narrative. Outsiders can't. They aren't heard. You won't get the truth until you talk to those who are excluded.

Missing truths lie outside.

#insiders #outsiders #excluded #castout #statusquo

Image: The migrants arrived in great numbers. 1940–41, MOMA, NY.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

The question, then, is how do you get a classical education? Well, that's easier now than ever, and open to just about anyone anywhere. More on this later - but this is the time to carve your path. #education #classics

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

Do you wish you had had a classical, liberal arts education, but didn't?

#liberalarts #classicaleducation #classics #education

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

People often think it's too late to get a classical education. However, not only is that not true, but getting a classical education later in life, after school/college, is delightful. Why? No grades, tests, exams, GPAs, SATs, or pressure from parents. Just because you want it.

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

"He descended in order to heal you; he ascended in order to lift you up." - St. Augustine of Hippo

Sermon 261 preached in Carthage on the Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, 418 A.D.

Image: https://t.co/cCfpfZCPg6

#ascension #christianart #liturgicalcalendar #augustine #christ

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

https://t.co/rp5vuHtaG5 (ACNA) has a great interface with a reasonable about of options, but is not good for following the calendar of saints for the Episcopal Church.

https://t.co/pEZXuR22MS (Has audio guidance) which is helpful for not rushing through it. 

#dailyprayer #BCP

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

Do you say the Daily Office (Anglican/Episcopal)? Online or with the Book of Common Prayer in hand? What apps are best?

#dailyoffice #episcopal #anglican

photo: by Bryan Sherwood https://t.co/XCL2ltX8DN

[M.F. Davidson @mfdavidson]

https://t.co/sm58jkzufQ has been my go-to but it's sometimes down (as at present) so I've started looking for others including:

https://t.co/047CmNBJGz is perhaps the easiest to use, possibly because it does not give you many options

#dailyoffice