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I do not claim to be a great teacher today, though I’d like to think I am getting better. When I first started teaching I was woefully inadequate to the task. Research and writing came naturally to me. Standing in front of a room full of people and commanding respect did not.Read more…
Teachers have significant influence through what they say. There are at least two spheres in which this warning from James is important to me: the church and the classroom.Read more…
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. AgainRead more…
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning by Jose A. Bowen My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book actually explains the attention-grabbing title of this book. Bowen contends thatRead more…
The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood, The land of spices; something understood. – Description of prayer from George Herbert’s poem Prayer (I) Reflection I certainly didn’t expect it. If someone had toldRead more…
Part Three: Should I Attend Grad School? Or What was I thinking? What counsel would I give someone who is considering grad school? First, think about it in terms of vocation. If your vocation, or expanding your vocation requires youRead more…
May our whole life over Thanksgiving, as individuals and a community of faith, be an indescribable testimony to the reality of God in the context of Higher Education. One which must be explained and shared on campus, on the road, in the air, with family/friends, back on campus as Advent begins. To God be the glory!Read more…
Would you agree with my idealistic enthusiasm for My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, the story of a professor of anthropology at a large state university who realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of herRead more…