About Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg holds a degree in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. A school teacher, he is also a writer and speaker on matters of faith, culture, and education. Mr. Rummelsburg is a member of the Teacher Advisory Board and writer of curriculum at the Sophia Institute for Teachers, a contributor to the Integrated Catholic Life, Crisis Magazine, The Civilized Reader, The Standard Bearers, Catholic Exchange, and a founding member of the Brinklings Literary Club.

Elves and Fairy Tales for Christmas

By |2022-12-11T15:48:38-06:00December 7th, 2022|Categories: Books, Christmas, Gifts for Imaginative Conservatives, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Timeless Essays|

The land of Faerie prepares the mind and the soul to recover that faculty that allows for the discovery of mysteries which lie beyond human understanding. The Christmas season is a wonderful time to share fairy tales with the entire family, yet they are also gifts that last for time unmeasured. Do you ever wonder [...]

Two Kinds of Education

By |2023-01-19T07:57:27-06:00March 31st, 2019|Categories: Classical Education, Education, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Modernity, Senior Contributors, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

We ought to discern the truth about our modern schools, remove our children from their ravages, and turn to the building of homeschooling communities and to involvement in classical charter schools. It is the only reasonable response to our modern schools, which have become unreasonable and morally irresponsible. As parents bring school age children into [...]

The Problem of Language and Our Schools

By |2018-10-25T23:06:38-05:00March 9th, 2018|Categories: Education, Featured, Language, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

The word “education” itself has become a political symbol co-opted by a secular government to mean career and college training for the sake of a mechanized society. A theoretical and conceptual recovery of the word “education” would be a return to the notion that an education is the transmission of culture and the way in [...]

Do We Need New Gender Pronouns?

By |2021-04-28T11:11:42-05:00February 5th, 2018|Categories: Aristotle, Christianity, Culture, Philosophy, Sexuality, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

In politics, compromise and consensus may have to suffice, but in academia, it is absurd to let consensus, identity politics, subjective self-reference, or anything else supersede truth. A prominent professor of linguistics publically taught the party line on gender pronouns. It is not necessary to name the semi-famous professor because even though it is absurd, [...]

Understanding the Human Person: Science, Faith, & Reason

By |2018-12-26T15:20:16-06:00May 20th, 2017|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Homosexual Unions, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

The empirical sciences are fantastic for discovering many things, but intellectual and moral truths are not among them. We must turn instead to the principles of philosophy and ethics, deduced from the objective moral standard of truth, to discover the answer to the questions about how we ought to live… The modern world is steeped [...]

Bill Nye and His Marchers for Pseudo-Science

By |2017-05-14T09:23:57-05:00May 9th, 2017|Categories: Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Theology|

True science is a great thing, for it honors God’s gifts to us, not the least of which is the intellect. Bill Nye and the Marchers for Science, however, are not really promoting science, but a utopian political ideology… In a public spectacle reminiscent of an episode of The Twilight Zone, on this past “Earth [...]

The Death of Grammar & The End of Education

By |2019-06-17T15:19:48-05:00April 23rd, 2017|Categories: Classical Education, Education, Featured, Liberal Learning, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Timeless Essays|

In the educational world today, we ask the wrong question about how students are to become educated. Instead of asking what they should do, we should ask how students ought to be… Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords readers the opportunity to join Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg as he explores how the abandoning of [...]

The “Pro-Choice” Delusion

By |2023-01-21T11:39:18-06:00April 12th, 2017|Categories: Abortion, Barack Obama, Catholicism, Culture War, St. Thomas Aquinas, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

Our moral duty to protect innocent life is the bedrock of civilization and the founding principle of this Great American Experiment. The root of the despotism of this age is clearly the corruption and abuse of language. The mind-molders in the ivory towers falsely insist that language is man-made and so invented for personal and subjective [...]

The Chicken, the Egg… and God

By |2016-09-13T23:13:04-05:00September 13th, 2016|Categories: Culture, Existence of God, Great Books, Philosophy, Plutarch|

The great Greek historian Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus was born a little more than a decade after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and it was at that early date that he considered up the significance of the seemingly insignificant chicken-and-egg question. In his notable work Moralia, in a discussion on love, Plutarch appropriately notes that the “problem about the [...]

Born That Way? The Evolution of Humanity, Sex, & Gender

By |2022-06-13T19:02:35-05:00April 21st, 2016|Categories: Christianity, Existence of God, Modernity, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Truth, Western Civilization|

We are in dire need of a recovery of truth in speech, a recovery of the true value of language. “Gender” is just the latest and most profound in a long string of misused words over the centuries, not the first or the last—but a misuse that has profound and dire consequences for modern society. [...]

C.S. Lewis on Modern Man

By |2019-06-04T16:02:32-05:00December 29th, 2015|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Education, Featured, Modernity, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

We are still spirited in the West, but the modern spirit is based on egoistic ambition and self-referencing subjectivism. A spirit of relativism today leads us into the desert of self-determination, where we are encouraged to build our own castles on shifting sands. Our grip on revealed truth about the ontological realities of God the [...]

Escaping Plato’s Cave: The Quest for True Literacy

By |2018-12-18T17:45:42-06:00October 23rd, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Featured, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Literature, Plato, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

There is exponentially more to literacy than what meets the eye. The distinction between material and formal literacy does not indicate movement on a linear graph, but an organic three-dimensional expansion of intellectual apprehension into previously undiscovered realms. The claims believers make about materially undiscoverable countries and the transcendent origin of language evokes ire and [...]

Are We Living in an Illiterate Age?

By |2015-11-17T18:57:18-06:00October 9th, 2015|Categories: Common Core Curriculum, Education, Featured, Great Books, Liberal Learning, Literature, Plato, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|

Many mistakenly believe this is a literate age. But in reality there is a literacy crisis the world over. The vast majority of people are in possession of literacy skills that constitute the mere shadow of true literacy. As a people, we are no longer able to detect the tones of reality or perceive their [...]

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