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Week’s End
I have taken great comfort all week in the fact that this week would have been crazy even if I had stayed on-island over the holiday weekend. The relief I felt as I moved through downtown gathering some stuff for … Continue reading
Monks without a Monastery
Joshua Gibbs, who teaches at a classical Christian school in Virginia, recently recounted what happened when he challenged his sophomore students to consider the “rule” of St. Francis in the context of adopting their own “rule” for living for one … Continue reading
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About Thinking
This morning I started my my quick second-reading of Alan Jacobs’s recent release, How to Think. Over the last two years, Jacobs’ voice has become one that I both enjoy and heed. While he doesn’t blog as much as I … Continue reading
Riding on the Trolley . . . Problem
The most recent episode of NBC’s The Good Place did a great job of revisiting some of the ethical themes of the show’s first season . . . from a completely different perspective. This time around, Chidi was trying to … Continue reading
Windsor Day
After a day of travel from Honolulu to LAX, from LAX to Detroit, and from Detroit to Heathrow, the group I am with finally made its way to our first major location: Windsor Castle. We had visited Windsor before, as … Continue reading
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Class in Session: In a Digital Age
A few weeks ago, one of my favorite authors posted the syllabus to “Living and Thinking in a Digital Age,” the honors course he would be teaching this fall semester. Beyond that, he posted links and DropBox-copies for most of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jacobs, Living and Thinking in a Digital Age, Technology
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Temporary Vocational Stretch: August Edition
We just wrapped our third week of the school year (not including a week of meetings). Thanks to a state holiday, this three-day weekend has been something of a “pause” button for me. Most of my class curriculum is turning … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Teaching, The Long Story
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Household Wisdom and More
A couple of months ago I shared the Q Ideas video presentation of Andy Crouch concerning his recent book, The Tech-Wise Family. The folks at Q Ideas recently released a “backstage” segment where Crouch got to add to his talk. … Continue reading
Wendell Berry and Why I Reread the Lord of the Rings
From Wendell Berry’s essay, “In Defense of Literacy”: . . . We must know a better language. We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the … Continue reading
Arguments before Waterloo
An excerpt from Carl R. Trueman’s “Our Cultural Waterloo” recently posted to First Things: Colleges are where the battle for the minds of the next generation will take place. And Christian colleges cannot win merely by shouting Bible verses, however … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 