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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 77: Great Book, Rotten Movie
- Episode 76.3: Red States and Blue States
- Episode 76.2: The Brothers Karamazov
- Episode 76.1: The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
- Episode 76: Autobiography
- Episode 75: Ante-Dante
- Episode 74: The Documentary Hypothesis
- Episode 73: Patience
- Episode 72: Valor
- Episode 71: Humility
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Going Forward, Doing More with Less, Fill in the Blank?
Are you Going Forward?? Then Stop Now. Of course, being part of academic and church cultures, the first thing I thought when I read this is how suitable it would be for somebody to do an analogous piece on each … Continue reading
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Next Time I Step onto Campus
I’ll be teaching again.? I helped out with new TA orientation yesterday, leading a paper-grading workshop, and I’m still waiting for the votes on my prospectus.? Today I’m at the library all day, as will I be Monday, but Tuesday … Continue reading
Posted in dissertation, UGA
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Some Thoughts in the Morning
Okay, so there was no second, substantive post yesterday.? I apologize. There are now five days until another teaching semester rolls out, and I’m feeling pretty good about things.? Several of my students have signed up on EMMA, and everyone … Continue reading
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Top Ten on Facebook
Not overall (after all, I post neither mp3 files nor gadget news–at least not that much gadget news), but I have now tied for the tenth-most-popular philosophy blog on Facebook.? If you have a Facebook account and like to read … Continue reading
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Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica: The Moral Universes of Television Drama
First of all, a disclaimer for the folks who are already shocked that I would watch Sopranos: I’m a teacher of literature.? I’ve taught plays in which sons murder their fathers and have sex with their mothers.? I teach (or … Continue reading
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Class Rolls are in
Actually, I had access to them Saturday night.? As of this morning, I have full sections (22 each) at 8:00 and 9:30. I’ve already sent my scare-’em-off email out to the class and added them to my WebCT course, so … Continue reading
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Michael Phelps is so Amazing as to be Scary.
That’s it.? I just watched him set another world record and leave the world’s best swimmers in his wake.? There’s just nothing like it. Oh, and watching Misty May and Kerri Walsh beat everyone up is fun, too. I know … Continue reading
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Christian Standard Takes a Stand for Books
What Have You Read Lately? So it appears that Paul Williams is joining in the “Kids These Days” game, and I can’t say how much I love the fact that he’s touting reading, a practice near and dear to my … Continue reading
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Upcoming Sermon: Isaiah 56
I’m filling the pulpit for two Sundays this month, and I’ve got the outline down for 8/17.? Actually, to be honest, the lectionary text from the Old Testament (I always preach the lectionary–it keeps me from returning to my own … Continue reading
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The Last Polite Bigotry
I really did have high hopes for Bill Maher’s podcast. I started downloading podcasts a couple weeks ago, and when I discovered that HBO offered the audio of Maher’s show for free, I downloaded the last bits of last season.? … Continue reading
Posted in Gripes, pop culture, Reflections
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8/8/08
I know that, technically speaking, some permutation of the repeated number can be found on just about any year’s calendar (9/9/1999, 7/7/1977, 3/4/2034, etc.), but I haven’t got anything good to write about today, and I want to keep up … Continue reading
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What I get to look at every morning
This particular sight actually popped up in my neighborhood about a month ago, but as I said yesterday, I just cleared off my camera’s memory card, so here you go. I imagine I’ll be looking at this until November, perhaps … Continue reading
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I’ve become one of those parents
Yes, these pics all came off the memory card today.? Yes, they span from the middle of June to late July.? No, there’s neither rhyme nor reason.? But there are pictures from our trip to Johnson City in there, so … Continue reading
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Dante 2008: Paradise
I wrapped it up yesterday afternoon, reading the last cantos of Paradiso and closing the book until 2009.? The realities of fallen mortals and our attention spans struck me as ironic this time: although the Pilgrim continued to rise into … Continue reading
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My Last "Kids These Days" Book of the Summer
I started (I think) with Allan Bloom’s 1987 Closing of the American Mind.? Then I read Neil Postman’s 1999 Building Bridges to the 18th Century. Now I’ve finished off the summer with Mark Bauerlein’s 2008 book, The Dumbest Generation, a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Kids These Days, teaching
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The 700th Anniversary of Left Behind’s Forebear
It was set to be a hit from the time letters hit paper. (No movable type yet, so it wouldn’t hit the presses for a couple centuries.) It had glimpses into Hell and Heaven, the doom of the Pope, and … Continue reading
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Academic Page
I should really update that thing; I’ll have to get on DreamWeaver next week and get it up to speed before too many prospective employers see that I haven’t updated it since January.? Doh!
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Time to Think
No time to think? I was reading around as the library day wound down, and I stumbled upon this little piece on Arts and Letters Daily. (You didn’t think I found these little Internet nuggets on my own, did you?) … Continue reading
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A Sinful Bookmark
What was Herodotus trying to tell us? by Daniel Mendelsohn Having read this review of a new edition of Herodotus, I truly regret the bookmark that’s been sitting in book four of my copy since April or so. I have … Continue reading
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