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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: May 2008
Book Review: The Assault on Reason
Perhaps the single funniest thing about this book, as I noted in an earlier post, is that Al Gore, one of the AM radio crowd’s most hated enemies, has written a book basically extending the argument of Neil Postman, one … Continue reading
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Feeling Good about Things
I’ve got the first batch of books together for dissertation research, and I’m a chapter into the first one.? I meet with Dr. Teague about the prospectus next week. I’ve got course descriptions for my fall classes online, and I’m … Continue reading
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Sir Micah
Micah’s VBS theme next week will be fairy tales, so we outfitted him as Sir Micah. Sir Micah dashes into battle Sir Micah with helm, shield, and sword Closeup of Sir Micah’s helm
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A Reward for Comps
Here it is–my new gadget, a Sony Reader 505. As a celebration of finishing comps, Mary let me cash in a year’s worth of Borders gift cards and pay the balance. I’ve already loaded a hundred seventy free books onto … Continue reading
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The Stupidity of Political Pundits
State’s Decline the Result of… blah blah blah I’ll admit that at times I’ve thought this kind of moronic assertion was proper only to Republican pundits, but once again I’m reminded that schoolteachers can be punching bags for whatever pundit … Continue reading
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ABD
No long post right now, but I passed my oral exams. I’m ABD! Yes, I have updated my CV.? Click the tab!
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Book Reviews Coming Soon
Pleased with my performance on written comps, I undertook this weekend to start a NON-COMPS BOOK for the first time in a while, and I’ve also been reading in totality a book whose first thirty pages or so I skimmed … Continue reading
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Evolution and ID: Some categorical confusions
This little essay is a cross-post from Conservative Reformed Mafia. Metaphysics and Epistemology Folks who recognize these words will doubtless first think of academic philosophy rather than academic biology, but the big questions (as I see them) at play in … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, teaching
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This Just In
It looks like I’ll be taking oral exams this Tuesday.? The graduate coordinator’s office emailed me this afternoon, and I’ve passed written comps. The standard thing to say at this point (it’s factually true) is thus: “They can never make … Continue reading
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Just say it was a bad idea
State Schools Superintendent Throws Out Tests I know full well that a politician’s admitting a mistake is only allowed to happen when a resignation is turned in (and any former students reading this, note how many passive verbs pop up … Continue reading
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Tonight’s Micah pics
Nothing grand; just an early summer afternoon at the little playground.
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Delayed Kudos to the Standard
Bob Hull’s “Can we Talk?” With my mind consumed with comps this week, I didn’t take the time earlier this week to point my readers (I love both of ya!) to this good little piece by my beloved Greek professor … Continue reading
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Only Waiting Left
Perhaps appropriately, I’ve just written my last comprehensive written exam at a small table at Panera Bread in Athens.? When ten o’clock came and went with no exam questions, I decided to take matters into my own hands and drive … Continue reading
T Minus Ninety Minutes
The last written exam will come down the pipe in an hour and a half. Of the three exams, this one covers the field with which I’m most familiar, but it’s a MASSIVE field. My longtime readers (both of you) … Continue reading
Two Down
Teague’s exam is in the can.? This one was thirteen double-spaced pages long (still in three hours), but on the long essay she asked me to discuss theology and literature, so what did she expect but a deluge? Tomorrow’s exam … Continue reading
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Three Hours to Go
The exam that frightens me most starts at nine this morning.? There was no reading list, and Dr. Teague takes pride in that.? She told me to think about how I’d teach Renaissance Drama and how I’d schematize the plays … Continue reading
From the Inside
This is definitely turning out to be a rite of passage.? Given the raw amount of text I cranked out, and given that I’m pretty sure it all pertained to the questions, I know rationally that my odds of passing … Continue reading
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One Down
I just transmitted my Renaissance Poetry and Prose exam to the graduate office.? I typed eleven double-spaced pages, covering a hundred years of literary texts, in three hours.? Although I’ve only left my computer desk’s chair to go to the … Continue reading
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Corrupting Micah
Last night, as Mary and I put Micah to bed, he volunteered to say the nightly prayers.? (He does so about every other night.)? This time, though, in addition to the standard “Thank you for Mommy and Daddy,” he threw … Continue reading
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Micah at the Zoo
This Sunday was Zoo day at Bear Hollow in Athens, and so we joined the little utopia that is Bear Hollow on a Sunday afternoon, donating our three dollars per person to support the zoo that lets us visit for … Continue reading
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