Creative Commons
Hardly the Last Word by Nathan P. Gilmour is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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
-
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Fiddling with the look again
The thing about working at the public library is that I have small spurts of free time but not enough to engage a serious project. So once more I’ve monkeyed with the site’s template, and I’m rather pleased. This one … Continue reading
Posted in Goofing Around, Self-promotion
Leave a comment
Sunday School Materials
If you hadn’t noticed, there is a new permanent link above the banner image. I’m teaching a series on angels in Sunday school during Advent, and I’m going to give the folks in the class a link to that page … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Church stuff, teaching
Leave a comment
Santa Claus Has Come to Town
At least that’s how I feel now that I’ve compiled grades for the semester’s last paper.? Very high average.? I do think that this group is talented, but the scores still seem high.? Ah, well.? I’m not going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, teaching, Travel
Leave a comment
Being Observed
Today was about the worst kind of day to have someone come into my classroom, but it went well nonetheless.? (My colleague Aaron visited to fulfill a course requirement for a pedagogy class, so the fact that I was helping … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Leave a comment
Feeling a Bit Old
Something started happening this semester that hadn’t before: I started seeing in students’ papers citations of popular press theology books that I’d only heard about on The Ooze before.? Earlier this semester a student used Rob Bell’s Sex God as … Continue reading
Posted in pop culture, teaching
Leave a comment
The Drudgery Part
I’m down to the letter S in my freshman comp papers. Now that does not account for those students whose papers I skipped on the way down, either because they turned the papers in late or because they expressed no … Continue reading
Posted in teaching, UGA
Leave a comment
Chaos in the Classroom
Whenever I miss a class as a teacher, some things go wrong.? When I miss a class this close to the end of the semester, my students look positively betrayed.? I maintain a pretty well-oiled web presence simultaneously with every … Continue reading
Posted in Family, teaching
Leave a comment
A Bit of Missionary Supercessionism
Can Biology Do Better than Faith? I love when, in the same brief piece of prose,? an author accuses his intellectual opponents of narrow-mindedness and asserts with dogmatic triumphalism that his own position has overcome all others.? Normally one has … Continue reading
Posted in Political Entertainment
Leave a comment
Angels in Sunday School
I taught the second lesson in my series on angels this morning, at the request of Jan, our regular Sunday school teacher.? I’m usually one to teach through a book rather than do topical lessons, but this series has been … Continue reading
Posted in Church stuff, teaching
Leave a comment
Tom Tomorrow and Torture
A Different President, a Different Debate I know some folks don’t care much for Tom’s cartoons, but? this one, once more, hits some nails right on the head.? I’ve written a couple posts now on the horrifying torture debate that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Political Entertainment
Leave a comment
Thanksgiving Pictures
Some pictures of Micah’s visit with Grandma and Pap-pap Burd to the Bear Hollow Wilderness Park. And a legendary meringue. A Thanksgiving Visit
Posted in Family, Micah pics
Leave a comment
Micah’s Going to Do All Right
If this study is right, at any rate, he ought to do pretty well in the K-12 rat race. Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading Apparently kids whose parents had high school degrees … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Leave a comment
More Thoughts on Steroids
Actually, nothing profound to say.? Just an update that we did go to Micah’s doctor’s office today, and he’s on the Barry juice until Friday.? We have learned to live a bit with them; keeping Micah’s hands active takes some … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Leave a comment
Reflections on Steroids
No, not another post on Barry Bonds. Because middle school substitute teachers are nigh-impossible to find right before a national holiday, I was in charge of watching Micah through his bronchiole inflammations and the steroids that his pediatrician prescribed to … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Leave a comment
A Day Off
I took Micah to the pediatrician’s office today, and it appears that he’s got a bronchial infection.? So after begging me to cancel a class all semester, my freshmen get their wish tomorrow. Now I’ve got to take some time … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Leave a comment
Indoctrination U
I’m going to be spending my blogging time over the next couple days on CRM engaging with Horowitz’s new book and with J. Wizzle.? Check us out over there for some good old fashioned verbal rasslin’.
Posted in Other Blogs
Leave a comment
Lazy Industry
I admit that, although I’m not going to miss much about the grad student life (no money, no respect, too much work, not enough time), I do dig sitting in coffee shops drafting term papers.? When I land at a … Continue reading
Posted in Goofing Around, UGA
Leave a comment
The Ooze: Historical Flux, Squishy Practice
My presentation went well today, so well that Dr. Medine suggested that I write up my findings and submit it for presentation at next year’s American Academy of Religion meeting. She said today that nobody has really done much scholarly-wise … Continue reading
Posted in Self-promotion, teaching, UGA
Leave a comment
500 posts
Admittedly, I’m carrying over more than 400 from the old blogspot site, but it’s notable at least. I might well write a bit this afternoon about my religion class? presentation today.? That happens at 9:30, and my topic is actually … Continue reading
Posted in Self-promotion, UGA
Leave a comment
Veterans’ Awareness Week
A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq to Grad School I heard this on my way to work this morning, and I enjoyed it.? Network news (around here, anyway) and AM radio sometimes slip into the error of casting the Iraq debate … Continue reading
Posted in Heard it on NPR
Leave a comment
