Don't miss the opportunity to sign up for a Vittle Moot some time this year, enjoying great food and conversation with other CCA parents and teachers.

For those interested in a little background, our CCA Vittle Moot tradition was inspired by the PigFest Society. A PowerPoint document by Jim Van Eerden of the PigFest Society is available here. Some of the key principles and goals from this document are restated below:

We have experienced a demise of dialogue about things that matter. Edmund Burke described the need for private, voluntary groups of people (“little platoons”) to shape the conscience of a nation.

Background of PigFests: A modern successor to an historic idea, the Pigfest is a regular gathering of an eclectic group of people around a hosted table. PigFesters gather--in schools, in homes and elsewhere--to indulge in great food and great conversation about the important issues of the day, and to sharpen their respective abilities to engage and enhance their communities.

The Branding of PigFests:

• The pig is a symbol of indulgence and appetite
• The pig has a unique ability to forage for hidden treasure
• The pig is perhaps the most intelligent animal in the barnyard

• Mealing together in the context of Christian hospitality
• Structured dialogue around important ideas, facilitated by key organizing principles, aimed at ‘lighting the fire’ of learning
• The platform of Truth (alathia as a purposeful unveiling of God's truth)
• The platform of Action (tikkun olam as the intended outcome, a term that comes out of Jewish thought and means "restoring all things" or "repairing the world")

1. Meetings should be scheduled regularly
2. The topics of discussion are limited to theology, political economy, history, philosophy and culture
3. All gatherings are governed by a Moderator
4. All conversations are governed by the Golden Rule, meaning that you esteem others better than yourself
5. All conversations are governed by the Devil’s Rule, meaning anyone can take a "devil's advocate" position without announcing it
6. The goal is "setting things to rights" – or personal and social betterment (As we gather for PigFests, we seek to have a Tikkun Olam action from every discussion. During the last portion of our time, each person will be invited to consider and propose practical applications from the discussions of the evening -- charting the course to the ways in which we can, together, help bring about this restoration, or "tikkun olam," as a consequence of our gathering.)
7. Apathy about anything is out of order