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The Connection Between Healthy and Smart
Somewhere over the course of the last ten years, I found myself interested in systems and the way things work (or don’t work). I think part of this is rooted in my last two years in college, when an organization … Continue reading
Categories of Conversations
I’m about a week into Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. As is often the case when reading about a given topic, you start to notice it everywhere once it’s on your radar. So … Continue reading
The Joy of Teaching
What started out as a quote about the particular love of teaching turned into a call for something more from pastors. From VanHoozer and Strachan’s The Pastor as Public Theologian: Stanley Woodworth, my high school French teacher, once described the … Continue reading
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A Close Reading of David Foster Wallace
Reading non-fiction in a big deal in high school these days. It’s a large part of what the testing is all about. And as a child of the 80s and 90s, I’ve always understood that reading was fundamental. But teaching … Continue reading
A Sort Of Wizards Duel
This week some of my students will start to read C. S. Lewis’s “The Weight of Glory.” Every year I read it with my students, I seem to find something new or just askew enough to strike me deeply. The … Continue reading
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Restlessness
Whether you sing it or you say it, Augustine’s thought rings true in life as you live it. Great are You, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Your power, and of Your wisdom there is no end. … Continue reading
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Receiving the Martian Signal
Seriously: go read the book first. Then come back and watch the trailer. I’m a little surprised at how much this trailer actually gives away. When I was reading the book (which was an enthralling experience), I was assuming … Continue reading
Counting Ordinary Time
This past Sunday Christian churches of the more liturgical bent entered into something known as ordinary time. Robert Webber explains: The period between Pentecost and the beginning of Advent is called ordinary time. By contrast the period through Advent, Christmas, … Continue reading
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Unintended Isolation (and the potential for friendship)
Being a single guy living on one of the most remote land-masses on the planet, I know the importance of relationships. I’m not always good at them. but I’ve always felt something significant and necessary with friendship. You get that … Continue reading
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Tolkien Treasure Trove
So it turns out that there’s this website called the Tolkien Gateway, and it links to all kinds of interesting and amazing things. The trove includes over 100 drawings by Tolkien, many based on Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Here’s one of … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 