Category Archives: Kids These Days

Someone please educate me…

Posted on 2009/09/10 by ngilmour

Perhaps I’m the only one who’s run into this sentiment, but I’ve heard three different people now marvel at youngsters’ prowess playing Guitar Hero, noting (with variations) that, if only we could “harness that ability,” we could do great things. … Continue reading →

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The Real Face of Teen Piety

Posted on 2009/05/05 by ngilmour

Grading papers yesterday, I looked up to see a young man, perhaps sixteen years old, sit down with a group of chattering teens at McDonald’s.? (Hey, there’s free wifi, and the coffee’s cheap.)? As the others talked quickly at one … Continue reading →

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Facebook Gripe of the Day

Posted on 2009/05/04 by ngilmour

There’s no good way to choose between the impiety of refusing to be a “fan” of Jesus, the Bible, prayer, and forgiveness on one hand; and the impiety of trivializing them by becoming their “fans” on the other.

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Return to the Arena part 4: An Attempt at Summary

Posted on 2009/04/15 by ngilmour

Return to the Arena part 1 Return to the Arena part 2 Return to the Arena part 3 It’s now been twelve days since I departed that fateful Friday afternoon for my return to the world of great-hall youth ministry … Continue reading →

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Return to the Arena part 3: Too Many Foci

Posted on 2009/04/13 by ngilmour

Return to the Arena Part 1 Return to the Arena Part 2 Those of you who read my “kids these days” book reviews in the summer of 2008 know that I’m no great cheerleader for the culture of “multitasking.”? Neil … Continue reading →

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Return to the Arena part 2: The Giant Speakers of Mordor

Posted on 2009/04/12 by ngilmour

Return to the Arena part 1 I know it’s been almost a week since I posted about CIY, but reflecting on my teaching comes first here at HLW, and posting Micah pics also comes first, so I do not apologize, … Continue reading →

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Return to the Arena part 1: Wherein I Say Nice Things About CIY

Posted on 2009/04/06 by ngilmour

I’ll go ahead and repeat the truism that someone coming back home from a long stay in a foreign place notices things that people who never left simply take for granted.? My own journey into Christian faithfulness started in the … Continue reading →

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Division of Labor and Trigger-Happy Freshmen

Posted on 2008/09/18 by ngilmour

We reached the end of this unit’s Plato reading today with one of the clearest articulations of dikaiosyne in the book.? I could tell that I was tired today, both from the late night at the circus Tuesday and the … Continue reading →

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A Smart Article about Stupidity

Posted on 2008/09/10 by ngilmour

On Stupidity, Part 2 The Chronicle of Higher Education has featured a couple columns now on the Kids-These-Days books that I’ve been reading (and a couple more), and today I saw a link on a follow-up article.? It’s got some … Continue reading →

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Christian Standard Takes a Stand for Books

Posted on 2008/08/09 by ngilmour

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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My Last "Kids These Days" Book of the Summer

Posted on 2008/08/05 by ngilmour

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 →

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Stoooopid

Posted on 2008/07/21 by ngilmour

Stoooopid …. why the Google generation isn?t as smart as it thinks Yes, I know I post a fair number of articles about the Internet generation. (In fact, I just created a category, and I’ll likely spend some time reading … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Closing of the American Mind

Posted on 2008/07/02 by ngilmour

I finally finished this book this morning, having started mere days after I finished my comprehensive exams. For about three hundred sixty of its three hundred eighty pages, I wasn’t sure what its thesis was going to be, and frankly, … Continue reading →

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Posting from the Road: Review of Building a Bridge to the 18th Century

Posted on 2008/06/09 by ngilmour

While I’m here at the in-laws’ house, I don’t have wireless. Thus my laptop connects to nothing in particular. Thus I write my posts, save them in Open Office format to a jump drive, carry them upstairs when the family … Continue reading →

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Should I be surprised?

Posted on 2008/05/10 by ngilmour

I read this morning that the opening week of sales on Grand Theft Auto 4 outgrossed opening weekend for Iron Man, which is now the runner-up for biggest non-sequel opening movie for a weekend, by one hundred fifty percent. When … Continue reading →

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Scripture and Literature

Posted on 2008/04/28 by ngilmour

Before I get too far I should say to any former student who reads this that I might well be talking about the text of your portfolio’s introductory essay (quite a few people make the categorical division that I’m going … Continue reading →

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