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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: February 2009
Billiard Balls, Wisdom, and Other Connections
Yes, that’s all from one class, namely Thursday’s Enlightenment class.? After giving them a brief talk about revising research papers (that some of them, judging by what they’re asking me via email, have not yet started to write), we dove … Continue reading
American Evangelicalism, Then and Now
I’m back in town from Toccoa, Georgia and from the “American Evangelicalism: Then & Now” conference that officially wraps up tomorrow but whose second day I won’t be attending, having to work at Bogart Library. My paper was in the … Continue reading
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Falling into a Mystical Ditch
First of all, my sophomore lit survey class proved again today just how bright they are–taking on a text that could not but be alien to them, they imagined their ways inside of it, and they made me look really … Continue reading
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Teaching Lit Crit
Yesterday’s lesson on Sidney turned out better than I deserved. ?Because I’m more interested in intellectual history than I am in court intrigue, I’ve not spent as much time as I probably should have on Sidney’s works and biography. ?(O … Continue reading
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The Decline and Fall of the Gilmour Empire
I’ll admit that I’m getting tired of my comp students’ not reading for class.? I knew, signing on to teach a required class in the spring, one that most folks take in the fall, that I’d not likely have the … Continue reading
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Why I’ll Take the Room Full of Professors
I’m aware that I could just be getting overly sensitive as I get closer to completing the Ph.D, but I’ve been thinking lately about all the folksy sayings there are disparaging teachers and comparing us to children.? Ten-year-olds on their … Continue reading
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Back to Egypt
When Mary and I returned from Indiana and West Virginia at the beginning of January, we started a new series on Exodus for the teens at church, and we decided fairly early on in the planning process that we’d do … Continue reading
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Taking Books Seriously?
A New Day for Intellectuals I’ll admit that I was one of the schmucks who didn’t see much changing about a month ago.? Certainly a great symbolic event was taking place, though I have my suspicions that, except for its … Continue reading
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The Real Kings of the GOP
U.S. Congressman Phil Gingrey Kowtows to AM Radio Hosts Someone asked me recently if I’d heard about this incident, and I hadn’t.? So I read up on it.? And I wanted to laugh, and I wanted to cry. Apparently at … Continue reading
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Watching my Class Happen
Today’s English literature survey was a good one, but I don’t remember anything earth-shattering. ?We spent a good bit of time on Jonson’s “To Penshurst,” talking about the magical, anti-urban, anti-Puritan vibe of the piece, and we looked at a … Continue reading
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Book Review: The New Media Frontier
The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ I realize, now that I’ve read this book, that it’s possible to expect to be surprised, and when I read this book, I was surprised precisely where I expected.? The … Continue reading
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My Inadequacy, Donne’s Perversity, or Some Mixture Thereof
Whenever I teach John Donne, I always leave class feeling like I’ve communicated nothing but the incapacity of my own soul. In the abstract, I’ve read and agreed with theologies that say that there ought not to be, for the … Continue reading
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Postman on Technology, the Short Version
As some of you no doubt know, I’m teaching a special section of freshman composition for the first time this semester, one on the writings of the Enlightenment.? Along with the Viking/Penguin Portable Enlightenment Reader (our main textbook), I’ve also … Continue reading
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Abolishing Something, but I’m not Sure What
Thirteen years do make a difference.? When I was a nineteen-year-old church camp counselor and took C.S. Lewis’s short book The Abolition of Man with me to read during down times, I marked myself immediately as the most intellectual church … Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day
I remember what I did every year in high school on February 14–out came the black T-shirt (not that I was averse to the black T-shirt during the rest of the year), and whether I had a girlfriend or not … Continue reading
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25 Beliefs and Un-Beliefs
Twenty-Five Sortof Random Things I Do and Don’t Believe I found this little not-meme on Internet Monk’s site, and since I participated in the less-interesting “25 Random Things About Me” meme on Facebook, I figured there wasn’t any reason not … Continue reading
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Geeking out on Herbert
I finally felt like I taught a genuine poetry lesson today–we covered modes of allusion, variations on persona, meter, rhyme, and all sorts of good English-major-type stuff.? We also took on a handful of poems from George Herbert, probably my … Continue reading
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Books and More Books
I found this meme on Michial Farmer’s blog, and lemming that I am… One book you?re currently reading: On the Bondage of the Will by Luther. One book that changed your life: The Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas. One book … Continue reading
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The Bible and Satire
Today we did Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, a lovely poem that I’d never read before planning the lesson for this class.? It’s a poem that at the same time gets 2 Samuel and ventures outside of its bounds freely to … Continue reading
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How I Teach on Sundays
I’ve actually not taught a Sunday school lesson since 2008, and the break has been a nice one. I’ve been able to get more done on my own dissertation, get accustomed to the new courses I’m teaching at UGA, and … Continue reading
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