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On Reading
I suppose that writing and reading advice can be found just about anywhere these days (assuming that you can’t get something else to read or write for you, which is more likely the case). So it’s a rare pleasure to … Continue reading
Technology and Trust in the Classroom
While I am grateful for a break from school, my heart and mind are never far from the classroom. As the teachers-only portion of the school year ended, I was already brainstorming ways to encourage students to as (better) questions. … Continue reading
Systems and Sunk Costs
There was a time that I regularly visited Seth Godin’s blog for some wisdom about the way the world works. A few years ago I just kind of stopped, though I drop in once in a blue moon. There have … Continue reading
Living with Books
Last week I posted a short video featuring Alan Jacobs talking about the integration of faith and learning on a collegiate/professional level. It was a real encouragement to me, as I’m trying to guide others through a similar process. Jacobs … Continue reading
A Word as the Week Ends
The first week of (online) classes comes to an end tomorrow. It’s been a good week. Turns out I’d forgotten a lot about the way technology works, so Monday was a kind of crash course. And while screen-to-screen is always … Continue reading
Grace, Forgiveness, the Engine
From a recent post by Alan Jacobs concerning the school he teaches at and the issue of racial reconciliation: Christianity has a lot to say about sin, repentance, and forgiveness. It tells us that we all sin. It tells us … Continue reading
Posted in Life in the Fifth Act, Notes for a World's End, Scripture
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Minding the Messengers
In the section of Antifragile about “skin in the game,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines prophets and their task: Prophecy is a pledge of belief, little else. A prophet is not someone who first had an idea; he is the one … Continue reading
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Promising Forward
A few weeks ago Andy Crouch and the folks at Praxis wrote about the importance of promises moving forward from Our Current Moment. I wrote about it here. Alan Jacobs recently picked up on the same thread for a piece … Continue reading
How to Think in 2020
Each fall I get to read through How to Think by Alan Jacobs with a group of high school juniors. It is an attempt to help students think about thinking, to consider why they have landed where they have landed … Continue reading
“For the Sake of Your Love”
It’s taken a few days, but I think I’ve found a decent morning routine for “spring break” that could easily last me for the next month depending on how school scheduling works out. A good almost hour-long walk in the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 