Ex Umbris

Ex Umbris

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Ex Umbris episodes

  • 42 Bread: The Most Important Thing in Human history?

    In response to an extremely genuine and earnest student request, Scholarch McLarney and Schoolman Fawcett look at the "grammar of bread" through the lens of anthropology, history, theology, and Scripture. They consider its role in the rise of civilization, the symbolism involved in the process of baking bread, why the Hebrew word for "bread" seems to be related to the word for "war," and why Christ may have chosen it to become His Body. You'll never eat a sandwich the same way again after these reflections on the staff of life.
    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

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    48 min
  • 41 What Does "Ex Umbris" Mean, Anyways?

    It seems fitting for a podcast on classical Catholic education to have a Latin name, but what exactly does "ex umbris" actually mean? Not just, "How would you say it in English?", but, "Once you've translated it, what is it telling us?" In this episode, Schoolman Fawcett, Latin teacher at Chesterton Academy of St. Isidore, gives Scholarch McLarney a rundown on the Latin grammar of the phrase "ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem" before discussing how it can refer to education, salvation, artistic beauty, and (fittingly, since it's on John Henry Newman's tombstone), the General Resurrection.

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

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    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

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    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    40 min
  • 40 Philosophy of Knitting

    Knitting involves more than meets the eye. When some in the McLarney household sought to delve deeper into the art, they went to the library, bringing home a book featuring not just techniques on threading, but a guide advocating a philosophy for dismantling all of systems on inequality. Here in the episode Scholark McLarney and Schoolman Fawcett take stock of the progressive tenants undergirding this contemporary guide, while turning the tradition to garner more about the art of threading and its cosmological import.   

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    39 min
  • 39 Culture of Life and Death

    Prior to entering into the Promised Land, Moses presents Israel with stark choices, the path of life and that of death. Echoing Moses' exhortation to "choose life" and the Covenant rather than Canaan, St. Pope John Paul II presents contemporary men and women with the culture of life, and culture of death. For the Pontiff, the decision for life is crucial not just for individuals to flourish but for a functioning society. In this episode Scholark McLarney speaks to Schoolman Fawcett about about these fundamental options while making connections to a recent pilgrimage to Our Lady of Gaudalupe in Puerto Vallarta. 

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    44 min
  • 38 Abolition of Man Part 3

    In this third segment on Abolition of Man, Dr. Pinkoski explores the Part 3 of Lewis’s work, considering Lewis’s argument that the Conditioners who reshape morality engage in social engineering inspirited not only by animal instincts but also by preternatural forces. Seemingly mundane educational material such as the Green Book necessarily spill out into the arena of spiritual warfare because at stake in the “Control of Language” is how we view and pursue our ultimate destiny.

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    23 min
  • 37 Abolition of Man Part 2

    Episode 37 picks up directly where we left off, discussing Abolition of Man with Dr. Pinkoski, elaborating upon the Tao, a shared moral heritage which connects our reason, passions, and sentiments to reality. Here we delve into the implications of shaping society outside of the “the Way,” as witnessed in Moa’s Cultural Revolution as well as the embrace of materialism in the West, before considering the propensity of those who leverage the power of the state outside of the Tao to make man in man’s own image.


    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about





    22 min
  • 36 Abolition of Man Part 1

    This episode, the first of three discussing Abolition of Man with Dr. Nathan Pinkoski, a former EICS student and current Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida, considers why it should be viewed as one of the great dystopian texts of the 20th century. Prompted by a review of “The Green Book,” Lewis gave a series of lectures 80 years ago which were later published as Abolition of Man. In the work Lewis argues that “[t]he practical result of education in the spirit of The Green Book must be the destruction of the society which accepts it.” Here in this episode, we find out why.  

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    29 min
  • 35 Narnia and Catholicism

    C.S. Lewis's Narnia, a well-loved series, presents fascinating portrayals of Christian themes. This episode delves into elements of the Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe that correlate closely with Catholicism while also considering Lewis's and Tolkien's approaches to myth, faith, and creative writing.


    #classicaleducation #narnia #cslewis


    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education.


    #chestertonacademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic


    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    59 min
  • 34 Country Music and Classical Education

    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education. #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic

    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    1 hr 12 min
  • 33 Unreeling Unearth: Hoizer and Dante Discussed

    Unreeling Unearth: Hoizer and Dante Discussed


    First conceived during pandemic lockdowns, the recently released album Unreal Unearth by Hoizer, with songs like Francesca and Eat Your Young, plays on themes from Dante's Inferno. Schoolman Fawcett and Scholark McLarney unfurl some of the allusions while commenting on the tenor and themes of the brilliantly cyclical album from a classically informed perspective.

    #danteinferno #exumbrisPodcast #catholicpodcast #classicaleducationpodcast


    Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett are teachers at St. Isidore ONLINE Chesterton Academy in Sherwood Park, AB Canada. SILC Chesterton Academy is a classical curriculum that combines a broad, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on the development of Christian virtues and an appreciation of beauty. Through our Three Pillars Model, we form our students in: Intellect, Character and Spirituality.

    As part of a larger online outreach school with Elk Island Catholic Schools, St. Isidore aims to deliver a joyful Classical Catholic Education.


    #ChestertonAcademy #ChestertonSchoolNetwork #classicaleducation #catholiceducation #joyfulcatholic


    https://chesterton.eics.ab.ca/

    https://silc.eics.ab.ca/

    https://www.facebook.com/ChestertonSILC

    https://twitter.com/ChestertonSilc

    https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsilc/

    https://www.youtube.com/@SILCChestertonAcademy/about



    1 hr 14 min

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Dr. Gerard McLarney and Mr. Brett Fawcett discuss various theological, philosophical, and literary topics in a way that corresponds to the four-year, four-theme structure of the Chesterton Academy. We…