about 3 months ago - No comments
My friend T’tocs is over in [not Brazil] ministering to college students. Here is a recent convo we had via text. I left the text-speak in there on purpose.
T’tocs : Nice. Don’t tell me abt tonight’s episode until i confirm i’ve seen it.Abt 2 go meet w 2 girls who want to show me the [...]
about 3 months ago - No comments
THE LIST:
Prep Sunday School – Attributes of the Kingdom 1.
Teach an Introduction to Kingdom Attributes
Write History Paper – Summary and Critique of Edwards Piece (started, not completed)
Do back Hebrew Assignment
Organize MACC docs (while watching basketball)
Catch up on MACC grading (Tests, Reading Summaries)
Write SFCC lesson for next week (New Religious Movements) [...]
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
I am in the middle of writing the first week of Christianity for my online Living Religions class. I want the students to have a sampling of extra-canonical Christian literature. I am like a kid in a candy story, bursting from one text to the next, and not able to make a decision. All them [...]
about 4 months ago - No comments
While it’s no Theology Gone Funny, this tickled me a bit:
In some cultures, a young man could not marry until he had taken his first head. However, a young man in the United States who tried to impress his girlfriend’s family by displaying his collection of shrunken heads would be quickly locked up and labeled [...]
about 4 months ago - No comments
Meredith and I, because of the nature of our beings and our situation, go go go go go.
Last night I tweeted that it was going to be a long day. I had two lecture to give, a hour and a half to drive, a test to compose, two other lectures to write, a study guide [...]
about 5 months ago - No comments
Conan shook his lion head. “No, Prospero, he’s beyond my reach. A great poet is greater than any king. His songs are mightier than my scepter; for he has near ripped the heart from my breast when he chose to sing for me. I shall die and be forgotten, but Rinaldo’s songs will live for [...]
about 6 months ago - No comments
Because I use this space to think about what I am teaching, among other things, I am going to post the discussion questions I ask my students and the writing exercises I assign them each Friday. My class is intro to philosophy and my students are freshmen from a rural background.[1]
Discussion Questions:
1) What is [...]
about 7 months ago - 9 comments
Recently, a friend of mine, who was ridiculed for reading Rob Bell, asked me why people hated him so. I tried to respond, but as it was on twitter, I only was able to say so much. The question has been rattling around in my brain for a few days and kept thrusting its [...]