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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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The Form of a Good Life
Author and blogger Rod Dreher has spent the last couple of weeks reflecting on and writing about the passing of his father. Dreher returned home to Louisiana a few years ago (after a number of years abroad) because of the … Continue reading
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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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Start Again
It’s difficult to believe that I am already one month into my thirteenth year teaching high school. At this point, we’ve already gone through the first cycle of things: first tests and projects, first homerooms and assemblies. It has been … Continue reading
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Traveling with Caedmon’s Call and the Third Guild Album
Over the last few months I’ve spent a lot of quality time listening to Caedmon’s Call and filling in some gaps in my music collection. Just before heading out on my recent trip to Tennessee, I found and ordered a … 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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Timing is Everything
Every spring in my Old Testament class I look forward to getting to the book of Ecclesiastes. On some level, the book upends some of my students’ expectation that everything in the Bible is particularly cheery. But I also like … Continue reading
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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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Where Joy Writes the Songs (and the innocent sing them)
It’s been a week since I said goodbye to my last class, but it feels like I’ve spent just as much time doing school stuff as ever. I’ve been meaning to get a few things posted that aren’t just comics … 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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Space Enough, and Time 