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What We Owe to Each Other
This last part of the second season of The Good Place has seen the “existential quartet” confront “the Judge” to plead their case as changed people. Last week we say each member face a challenge, a test, to see how … Continue reading
Describing Generation Z
One of the things that we talk about in our classroom discussions about ethics is the category of ethics known as “descriptive ethics.” It really is as simple as the term itself: descriptive ethics is concerned with communicating what is … Continue reading
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The “Existential” Place
The Good Place on NBC has always been an amazing little show. Now that the main characters have taken leave of the “Good Place,” things have gotten even weirder . . . and better . . . and more ethically … Continue reading
Unclosed Loop: How to Think
The floor of my digital mind is littered with reflections that didn’t make it to this site. At the end of December, I started titling a handful of entries with the phrase “Unclosed Loop.” It’s a reference to something I … Continue reading
Education Drowning?
One of the first things that crossed my virtual desk this morning was this brilliantly rendered essay by Christian Smith. I quickly got a copy to a friend. And then, throughout the day, I couldn’t help but share it with … Continue reading
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Unclosed Loop: The Last Jedi
Perhaps the only thing more interesting in the Star Wars universe than The Last Jedi right now is what people have been saying about the movie. I posted my initial thoughts here. Now that school is back in session, though, … Continue reading
Unclosed Loop: U2’s Songs of Experience
I’ve been meaning to get something a little more substantial down concerning U2’s most recent release, Songs of Experience. It’s been a rough semester for U2 in my classroom. Each fall for the last few years I’ve played “When I … Continue reading
Unclosed Loops: Life in the Digital Age
Earlier in the year, I had high hopes for “reading along” with Alan Jacobs’s “Living and Thinking in the Digital Age” course at Baylor. I got through a number of the initial handouts and articles (and even purchased and started … Continue reading
Closed on Account of Prettiness?
Well, if that happened to be the metric, I wouldn’t be at school much at all, Calvin . . . Speaking of the weather, it’s been a cold few days here in Tennessee. We’ve had flurries a couple of times: … Continue reading
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Running the Halls (or: revisiting Mere Christianity)
One of the few practices I’m trying out over the Advent season is the (re)reading of a book. Because the season last just over three weeks, I thought it was a decent amount of time to do a slow reread … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 