Hardly the Last Word

I just noticed that I’d hit the four-digit mark. Thanks to all my readers, and to my mom, who knows as well as I do that she only checks for new Micah pictures.
Hwaet!

I bought four dozen of ‘em this morning, and my two freshman comp classes went through nearly all of them.
Thus ends a semester that, frankly, disappointed me. I don’t suppose every semester can be the best ever (life doesn’t go that way), but I feel like I didn’t give my best performance, and that’s [...]

I gave a full-on lecture, by my classes’ request, to my freshmen today that began with Moses’ writing down the law in Deuteronomy 32 and finished with the publication of the Harper-Collins Study Bible. They wanted to know how the Bible became the Bible, so I gave them the full treatment. Thirty-five hundred [...]

I taught my last lesson on biblical texts to my freshmen yesterday; the rest of the semester is going to be portfolio work and such. So no more musings on Job or David or Plato, for that matter. More of that in August.
I suppose I’ll be the three-millionth blogger to say a little [...]

We took on the last of Job and J.B. this week, and once again, the students got in their best fight over the endings. On one side were those who thought that “I’m the one worthy of rule, not you, so you don’t get to cite rules at me” was a pathetic way to [...]