SS #102: Music to My Ears (with Greg Wilbur!!)
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Our special guest today is the one and only Gregory Wilbur! Greg is founder and president of New College Franklin—a Christian college that concentrates on the classics and the seven liberal arts with a discussion-based approach and spiritual formation. In addition to teaching and developing curriculum, his current academic focus is advancing the disciplines of the Quadrivium by bringing together leading voices in its renewal. An award-winning musician, Greg has released seven albums of his compositions of congregational psalms, hymns and service music as well as theatrical musicals and film scores, and his hymns can be found in more than ten hymnals. Having taught for almost thirty years, he is a frequent speaker on music, the Quadrivium, arts, liturgy, and worship and serves as Chief Musician and liturgist at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, TN. Greg, his wife, Sophia, and daughter, Eleanor, enjoy travel, reading, cooking, taking walks and life in middle Tennessee.
In today's episode, Mystie and Brandy dig interrogate Greg about music. In The Liberal Arts Tradition, music appears twice: once as a sort of poetic mode of knowing, and later as a liberal art that looks suspiciously like math. We want to know where instruments come in.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have patterns you see where you're like, these are some of the leading causes of disharmony in the soul in our culture, where you're really seeing like, you know, because I know you deal with a lot of homeschoolers. Like these are people who are taking their jobs seriously as the parent educators of their children. They're trying really hard. And so it's, you know, I just like I want to invite you to insult all of us. I don't know. |
| 0:20.4 | But at the same time, I'm thinking, like, you know, I still have three kids at home. |
| 0:24.4 | There's hope for them. So it's, you know, I just not like I want to invite you to insult all of us. But at the same time, I'm thinking, like, you know, I still have three kids at home. |
| 0:24.4 | There's hope for them. |
| 0:25.7 | I think that's... |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to Scalae Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow. |
| 0:45.1 | Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches of classical homeschooling, |
| 0:51.5 | who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it |
| 0:55.2 | all done. I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. You can find me over at the Charlotte Mason Think Tank. |
| 1:01.6 | Go to afterthoughts blog.net slash think tank to learn more. My co-host today is Misty Winkler. |
| 1:09.7 | Misty is a homeschooling mom of five, including one graduate. |
| 1:13.4 | She writes and podcasts at Simplyconvial.com and is the author of The Convivial Homeschool, |
| 1:19.0 | gospel encouragement for keeping your sanity while living and learning alongside your kids, |
| 1:23.9 | now available on Amazon. |
| 1:26.5 | It's not too late to join the excellent markssmanship seminar going on now in the Sistership. |
| 1:32.3 | Excellent Marksmanship is all about Marx with an X, and how he has made his marks, pun intended, on the world around us. |
| 1:40.3 | So join us as we read Plutarch, the Communist Manifesto, and more. |
| 1:44.4 | Just go to scoli sisters.com slash marks. |
| 1:48.3 | Our special guest today is the one and only Gregory Wilbur. |
| 1:52.6 | Greg is founder and president of New College Franklin, |
| 1:55.7 | a Christian college that concentrates on the classics and the seven liberal arts |
| 1:59.3 | with a discussion-based approach |
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