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Bring Them Up

On raising children and teaching students in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

september 1, 2026

Black Belt Raggants

The following are my notes for the 2026-27 ECS Convocation address, given September 1.

june 17, 2026

Forging Raggants

It was early one June morning as seven potential apprentices stood in the sun waiting for the blacksmith…

june 6, 2026

Yielded Hustle

The following are my notes for the 2026 graduation at ECS.

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2026

  1. Fiction for Unfavourable Conditions
  2. No Better Time or Place

2025

  1. No Feather Lifting Classes
  2. Jealousable Blessings
  3. The ECS Enculturation Trifecta for Unfavorable Conditions
  4. A Grief Endured
  5. What Do You Want?

2024

  1. Watershed Raggants
  2. The Summer of Raggants
  3. Dad Charge
  4. Tip More, Boldly
  5. Get Rich
  6. Plotting Imaginative Coordinates
  7. Disturbing the Lives of Others

2023

  1. The Year of the Raggant
  2. What the Music Says
  3. Too Loved to Be Bored
  4. Raggants Aren’t Normies
  5. Mission Critical

2022

  1. A Cultural Cathedral
  2. Stupidity Down
  3. Too Blessed to Be Stupid
  4. Keep Founding
  5. Baby Kittens Harnessed to a Bobsled
  6. On a Mission from God
  7. What We Need to Work On
  8. Make Disciples, Not Dependents
  9. An Epic Festival
  10. On Wanting More
  11. The Souls of the School

2021

  1. Laughing in Wartime
  2. Summer Break for Seeds
  3. Mellifluous Minutes
  4. A Place for Our Shelter
  5. Brave New Unhappiness

2020

  1. A Graduation Rumpus
  2. Good Fences Make Good Students

2019

  1. An Eye for Learning
  2. The Road Called Aestas
  3. All Are Yours
  4. The Future in a Snap
  5. So Let’s Do Something About That
  6. Not Another Humanistic Empathy Theater
  7. The Adventure Aslan Sends
  8. Fiction Up and Fiction In
  9. "Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?"
  10. He Is Neither Here Nor There

2018

  1. Me First: The Deaths We Should Die for Our Students
  2. New Adventures in Letters
  3. Unfinished Stories
  4. Blessed New World
  5. Aiming Senior Arrows
  6. The Code of the Coders
  7. Uncomfortable Blessings
  8. Better Than Unbreakable

2017

  1. Willing to Dig
  2. Boy, Was I Bored
  3. The Great Gravity of Glad Sacrifices
  4. The Nuts and Bolts of Education
  5. Flammable Under Certain Conditions

2016

  1. Fiction as a Political Weapon
  2. Combing Hair at Thermopylae
  3. The Red-Blooded Trivium
  4. The Forgotten Planet

2015

  1. A Site to See
  2. Why I Hate Fiction
  3. Making a Contribution
  4. The Lifeblood of Fiction
  5. More Fruitful Than Treebeard
  6. Every Lesson Is a Gift

2014

  1. The Door
  2. A Good Egg
  3. Defining Gifts

2013

  1. Go for It
  2. Big Minds Make Big Changes

2012

  1. Changing the World from a Basement
  2. Back to School
  3. Why Is This So Hard?
  4. A Glorious Day

2011

  1. Three Good Ones
  2. Fathers Who Give Hope

2009

  1. Church Conversation
  2. What Comes Naturally

2008

  1. One Week Later
  2. It's Very Male / Female in Here
  3. You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly