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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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Category Archives: teaching
The Medieval Mix at its Best
Yesterday’s class was a blast, though once again I proved that I’m not quite educated enough to teach Middle English texts. Our opening exercise, my favorite part of today’s class, had my students split up into groups of three or … Continue reading
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Bad, Bad Teacher
I will bring books and materials to class. I will bring books and materials to class. I will bring books and materials to class. I will bring books and materials to class. I will bring books and materials to class. … Continue reading
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??t Wyf…
I really do enjoy Chaucer, I’ve found.? We did the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale today in class, and I discovered that the Wyf (a holdover from the Old English neuter noun for woman–a lesson in the difference between … Continue reading
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Greek Tragedy Meets Boethian Providence
I gave my students a big old Middle English assignment over the weekend, all 2200 lines or so of Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale.”? I was surprised, frankly, at how little objection I got when I came to class this morning.? Some … Continue reading
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Introducing Utilitarianism
It’s fun sometimes to introduce students to ideas that they’d already held but didn’t have names for, and the lights were going on as we took on Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of mischief-analysis as it pertains to legal questions yesterday.? Bentham … Continue reading
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Guinevere, Get Thee to a Nunnery!
Once again, I don’t feel like I taught an extraordinary lesson today, partially because of my selection of texts.? Malory’s Morte d’Arthur is a fun text, heavy on the storytelling and light on the allegory.? Although the moral philosophy is … Continue reading
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Educating Children, Exploiting Children
I taught what I think must have been my best philosophy lesson this semester yesterday. I’ve done better teaching writing, but the character of my comp classes is that I can stink one up while doing quite well on the … Continue reading
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In the Den of Errour
I didn’t teach a great lesson today over Spenser’s Faerie Queene, but it was competent.? I suppose I should have expected to hit a rough patch after going straight from Anglo-Saxon poetry into Milton and then hitting the first text … Continue reading
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Must Perfect Be the Enemy of Good?
I asked myself the same after I finished my lesson in our Enlightenment class yesterday. The paper my students are writing this time around, as I mentioned a couple days ago, has my students attempting some Enlightenment-era questions in whatever … Continue reading
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Lending a Hand in Milton
I finished a week of Paradise Lost today that went entirely too quickly. ?I know that some of the folks on the Milton-L listserv look with disdain on those Philistines who would teach excerpts from the poem without taking it … Continue reading
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What Story Do we Tell?
I’ll admit that I was preoccupied with other things when I taught comp yesterday, and I perhaps lost my patience.? But I do fear that my students’ failure (in most cases, I surmise) to read Postman yesterday might hinder them … Continue reading
MILTON!! I’m teaching MILTON!!
I know this shouldn’t be this big an event (or perhaps it should!), but I taught my first lesson on Paradise Lost today.? It’s rather goofy, I admit, that someone who’s writing a dissertation heavily focused on Milton has taught … Continue reading
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Neoliberalism–How Does Stan Fish get Wrong what ISI Gets Right?
Neoliberalism and Higher Education – Stanley Fish Blog – NYTimes.com. As I noted a few posts ago, I recently discovered the audio archive at Intercollegiate Studies Institute and have been listening to some of the lectures there.? I have a … Continue reading
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Where Did Spring Break Go?
I know full well, of course.? Adulthood swallowed half of it, and teaching ate the other half.? The first day of spring break I spent working my second job and driving Mary and Micah around (since we were down to … Continue reading
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Geeking out on Old English
I think I had too much fun in class today, and that fun came forth in a lesson that, in seventy-five minutes, covered about ten lines of poetry but diverged into textual histories, translation theory, multiple commercial breaks to pitch … Continue reading
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Beer Gut Jesus or Girly Christ?
Toughness and Manliness in Gospel Ministry Who[m] Can Mark Driscoll Worship? If nothing else, this post from Halden Doerge’s blog (the second link) is worth looking at just for the graphic next to the seventh paragraph, even if one must … Continue reading
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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
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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