HeyJaredThe Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom
Currently writing on the third way through feminism and patriarchy, always excited to share what I'm reading, how to remind the church of our holy vocation, and why education needs to emphasize the liberating arts
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Can virtue be taught? (opens the original)
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At our Great Books faculty retreat last week, one of my colleagues noted that students don’t seem to understand what a Great Books class even is until we get to Plato. That comment compelled me to change up my first day routine. After teaching for a couple of decades, I rely on Socrates’ advice to give students “torpedo shock” by which we assist them “to the discovery of truth” by their first recognition of their own “ignorance,” lack of knowledge (Meno, 79e-80c). This year, I’m asking them to r
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey (opens the original)
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Let me begin my review of the 2026 film The Odyssey in a strange place, in 12th c. England, where Marie de France is justifying her retelling of stories such as Lancelot and Guinevere, David and Bathsheba, and other well-known myths. “It was customary for the ancients,” Marie writes, “in the books which they wrote… to express themselves very obscurely so that those in later generations, who had to learn them, could provide a
Bluestockings: London (opens the original)
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She rises, conscious of her worth;/ And at her new-found powers elated,/ Thinks them not rous’d, but new created. —Hannah More, ‘The Bas Bleu’ (1783)A “Bluestocking” is an intellectual woman, the word coined in the 18th century when that strange phenomenon of a thinking woman began to host salons and be known publicly rather than merely privately for her wit, reason, and moral sentiments. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluestockings-History-First-Wome
Women in the Tradition: LONDON (opens the original)
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Did you know that librarians during the Reformation would label books by women as “Femina” to indicate the texts were “less worthy of preservation”? Hence the title of Janina Ramirez’s book subtitled “A New History of the Middle Ages,
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