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God, the beloved enemy...

God, the beloved enemy...

Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough; but peace, love, joy are only from God. […] God, the beloved enemy. Our enemy because, before giving us everything, he demands of us everything; before giving us life, he demands our lives – our selves, our wills, our treasure. Will we give them, you and I? I do not know. Only remember the last glimpse that we have of Jacob, limping home against the great conflagration of the daw

30 Questions You Didn't Ask: An Interview

30 Questions You Didn't Ask: An Interview

Sincere responses to 30 randomly generated questions. If you were a worm, how long would you be? Worms! Worms drive me nuts! Nuts!! I was once nuts. They put me in a home. I died there. They buried me. Then came the worms. Worms!! Worms drive me nuts!! Nuts!!! What's the size of your shoes? 11½ or 12, depending on width. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you? No. What I doubt is a narrative which seeks to explain our existence by resorting to nihilism and the

Classroom Blogging – Audio Blogs (Podcasting)

Classroom Blogging – Audio Blogs (Podcasting)

Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, & Other Tools that are Shaping a new Information Landscape (2nd ed.) by David F. Warlick. As bandwidth and internet transmission speeds have increased, employing audio, and even video, in conjunction with the classroom and/or blog is much more realistic than it once was. Warlick makes the case for the value of developing these tools in the classroom. Some of his technical specifics are now a bit dated, but the basics of d

The Men in Black (Hats)

The Men in Black (Hats)

A brief reflection on America's Great Orators. I might be on historically thin ice here, but it seems to me that men with head wear are significantly more likely to be statesman of high rhetorical caliber. Consider... The authors of the Mayflower Compact were Pilgrims with over-large black hats (lovingly, but most peculiarly adorned with belt buckles). Ben Franklin enjoyed his coon skin cap. Thomas Jefferson was partial to the more fashionable colonial triangle, a hat vaguely

Making a Case for the Resident Artist in the Church

Making a Case for the Resident Artist in the Church

It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand. ~John Walford This post is inspired by Michael Minkoff’s talk Unmuzzling our Artistic Ox for the Flourishing of the Church given at the “Reforming the Arts” 2017 conference. What follows directly interacts

Classroom Blogging – Assessment

Classroom Blogging – Assessment

Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, & Other Tools that are Shaping a new Information Landscape (2nd ed.) by David F. Warlick. How does one assess a blog? Blogs may actually be easier to assess than other kinds of classroom writing. First, blogs lend themselves to authentic assessments – the comments left by teachers and other students are probably more meaningful and helpful than any specific grade which we might assign. What I have done this year is to lea

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Our audience tends to be people exasperated with the world but too idealistic to give up on cultural engagement; who swim in a world seemingly devoid of truth, yet are too ethical for hedonism.

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