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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: January 2009
New Computer, New Website, New Blog
Well, it was a busy week in several ways.? As you’ve read here, I’ve been teaching like crazy, and beyond that, my Ubuntu 8.10 disk came in the mail, so I installed it on the new laptop, and I’ve never … Continue reading
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The Spirit of Monarchy and the Spirit of Republic
Comp class yesterday was quite fun. ?We started out digging into the text of the Declaration of Independence, a document that, for good reasons and bad, has become a sort of canonical document in America, good for quoting and waving … Continue reading
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Setting up the New Blog
I’m not going to make the mistake this time of trying to switch mid-stream.? When this site meets my expectations, I’ll import Hardly the Last Word and make this my only blog.? Until then, the wordpress.com site will remain my … Continue reading
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Conjuring with the Bible and Listening to Devils
The most interesting line of questioning from today’s lit survey class was one for which I had not prepared adequately.? (I recognize that such is the finitude of humanity, but I still often wish to have such days back.)? As … Continue reading
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Arm’s Length or All In?
I didn’t give my best lesson ever yesterday in comp, but it wasn’t bad either. Our main texts for the day were excerpts from John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, and my initial … Continue reading
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My Tragic Lesson Plan
I’m looking at my notes for today’s lesson on the final two acts of King Lear in English Literature Survey course, and I believe that if I made a list of the six most interesting bits I wanted to get … Continue reading
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In Praise of Small-Town Post Offices
I think that the Heidegger podcast saved me from the grumpiness that I could hear over the lecture around me. Yes, I’m listening to a Berkeley course on Heidegger’s Being and Time?as I read through it with Michial Farmer. ?It’s … Continue reading
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I just wouldn’t be able to make it
No Snickering–That Road Sign Means Something Else This NYT article had me laughing out loud–being a sucker for the unintentional inappropriate joke, I was loving every minute of it.? The best part, though, was this map of the place-names.? Now … Continue reading
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New Home Page Up and Running
On my brother’s advice, I went ahead and registered the domain http://www.nathangilmour.com a while ago, and in the intervening time I’ve been putting together a new professional page.? So take a gander if you will, and if you have suggestions … Continue reading
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On Putting One’s Eyes Out
I’m once again in debt to Fran Teague, my wonderful dissertation director, for a bit of pedagogical gold.? When we took on King Lear in her graduate Shakespeare class in 2005, she introduced the history-of-theater question of how one could … Continue reading
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Playing the Atheist
Yesterday’s class landed me in a strange place but one that, for the moment, I’m alright with.? As I’ve noted elsewhere, I don’t go out of my way to announce that I’m a Christian but also don’t duck the question … Continue reading
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Psychology Grad Students, Get your Dissertation Notebooks Ready
Micah to Mary yesterday: “Pretty soon I’m going to be a grownup, and then people will call ME Daddy.”
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Hard to Blame Anyone in Lear
I realized while planning today’s lesson that, until some of the characters just go devilish on the audience, I have a hard time blaming anyone in King Lear for what comes to pass.? On one hand, Regan and Goneril don’t … Continue reading
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If Anyone Wants to Lavish Gifts on an Obscure Scholar
If there are any rich blog-patrons out there, I have good news for you.? The C BD academic calendar showed up in the mail this weekend, and I’m positively salivating over some of the offerings.? If you want to start … Continue reading
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Attack of the Cockroach
Weatherman and Cockroach This shouldn’t be nearly as funny as it is, but it is.
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Kant’s Strange Disconnect
Immanuel Kant: “What Is Enlightenment?” Thursday’s comp class (the brave souls trying out my Enlightenment special topics class) got into some pretty good discussions of this surprising text.? Kant sets out sounding like the very spirit of the age, calling … Continue reading
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Dissertation Anxiety
I don’t know why, but it’s taken me a month to actually set eyes on the copy of my Milton chapters since I printed off the latest draft.? I’ve been working on other chapters, but I’ve been terrified of finding … Continue reading
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A Dirty Play Gets Moralistic
We finished up The Country Wife today, and my classes agreed with me that the in vino veritas scene in act five seems forced.? The play as a whole, as I mentioned last time, is a nonstop flurry of dirty … Continue reading
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A Look into Another Conference
Philosophers at Work, and Hoping for it I had to laugh a bit and commiserate with my compatriots over in the philosophy departments when I read this article.? I don’t have much to add to it, but this exchange with … Continue reading
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Dirty Jokes and the Enlightenment
The two really don’t have much to do with one another, save that I taught both this morning.? Starting Thursday I’m likely going to start writing a post for each, but today, we mainly did interviews in my Enlightenment comp … Continue reading
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