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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 67.2: Good News for Anxious Christians
- Episode 67.1: The Office of Assertion
- Episode 67.03: The Best Music of 2011
- Episode 67.02: St. Nicholas at Nicea
- Episode 67.01: Singing Faith
- Episode 67: A Christmas Carol
- Episode 66: Desert Island Books
- Episode 65: Academic Conferences
- Episode 64: Environmentalism
- Episode 63.11: Technical Difficulties
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Micah Pics–Finally!
October 2007 Here they are–Micah’s pictures from September and October.
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Out of the Ooze
The popular theology book to which I contributed an essay is now available for purchase. The other contributors, I’ve found, have far more hipness and rock star power than I have, but that’s not hard. Their blogs probably also get … Continue reading
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Plato Therapy
We jumped a thousand years into the future today, landing squarely in the sixth century AD.? A class that lives, so to speak, in ancient Greece can make those sorts of jumps. We found at the end of our jump … Continue reading
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Good versus Evil on November 4
Colts vs. Pats: Good vs. Evil I really enjoyed this little article. Patriots at Colts on Nov. 4 is shaping up to be one of the most attractive and exciting NFL regular-season games ever staged. The pairing is fabulous; the … Continue reading
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More Democratic than they Realize
We discussed Milton’s “On Education” today, and both classes did a great job seeing the stark differences between Plato’s highly specialized/aristocratic society and Milton’s strongly democratic notion that everyone should learn to farm, to fight, to litigate, to heal, and … Continue reading
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The Last Word
No, I’m not ending this blog.? You wish you could be so lucky… I’m just plugging Mary’s blog, The Last Word.? She claims in its description that her word is not the last.? I’m going to remain safe and diplomatic … Continue reading
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LibraryThing reading lists
I’ve been fiddling with my blog’s layout instead of reading Ben Jonson today, and I now have “now reading” devices in the margins.? The cover images require Java, which WordPress doesn’t support, but the links are direct links to my … Continue reading
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Heading into Boethius
We’ve had our peer revision day, and so far, the papers I’ve discussed with students look promising.? Those papers at the very least seem to be taking seriously the variety within premodern and early modern thought and exploring some of … Continue reading
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The end of the Republic, 2007 tour
I think I named this post the same thing last year.? Ah, well.? If the name is a good one, why not stick with it? My brave students finished up with Plato’s baffling reincarnation chapter yesterday. ? I was sure … Continue reading
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Radio Sermon: Joseph as Respecter of Dignity
For the second time in about five years, I heard today a preacher (this time on the radio–don’t know his name offhand) hold up Joseph’s actions in Genesis 47 as good actions.? The sermon was on around 9:30 when I … Continue reading
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Tortue on TV
Torture on TV, Bad Interrogation in Iraq I heard this the other day on NPR’s Fresh Air, and it reminded me again that those who claim to be tough-guy “realists” often miss the reality of a situation. The interview, twenty … Continue reading
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Turning to the Dark Side
Yesterday we covered that bit of Plato that always makes me check the book’s cover and make sure it’s Plato and not somebody far more modern.? (I also tend to think, upon reading it, that Freud plagiarized it.)? Plato, having … Continue reading
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Math and Morals
We covered some safer ground, relatively speaking, in today’s classes.? First up was the single most famous bit of Republic, the allegory of the cave.? I’ve got my cave talk (and chalkboard diagram) down so solidly that it felt like … Continue reading
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Cubs on the brink… again
I haven’t watched either game in the Arizona series, and I don’t plan to watch tonight.? If they go deeper than this round, I might consider talking Mary into taking Micah for a few innings, but so far, reading about … Continue reading
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Against Democracy, 2007 Tour
I got to teach perhaps my favorite Republic lesson today, the one in which I take on the persona of Plato and go after democracy.? And as in previous classes, the reactions varied from students who got mad, students who … Continue reading
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Women, Children, and Others
I typed this post once, but the UGA main library’s shady Internet connection lost it forever.? Ugh. I didn’t post about Tuesday’s classes because I was grading, and I think that was a mistake.? I’m going to try reconstructing some … Continue reading
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Corporate Buyouts Stink
Well, we were Adelphia Cable customers for a year and a half, happily paying our nine bucks a month for basic cable. Then Comcast bought out Adelphia a few months ago. I got the notice today that they’re now charging … Continue reading
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