Traveling for Thanksgiving? Need something to listen to? Allow me to suggest some podcasts that may provide both topics to discuss around the table on Thursday and some tips on how to approach those conversations. I hope that all of you who are celebrating have the opportunity to spend the day with loved ones in a mutually supportive environment, but I appreciate not everyone may have such an opportunity. Perhaps somewhere in the conversations below you will find some encouragement for cultivating better dialogues in … [Read more...] about Science Corner: When Holidays Are Complex
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Science Corner: The Time Stone Heals All Wounds?
This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame; it is difficult to discuss the film's themes in any depth without spoiling at least some elements. For all the secrecy surrounding Avengers: Endgame, many of the film's best moments feel inevitable, the fulfillment of promises made in earlier installments. So I especially enjoyed the genuine surprise of seeing the word "Five" appear on the screen, then a very knowing pause, then "Years Later." The film initially meets expectations by picking up right where Avengers: … [Read more...] about Science Corner: The Time Stone Heals All Wounds?
Defensiveness
Thank-you to Mark Eckel for sharing insights with Emerging Scholars as they seek to engage the new year and their particular context with wisdom. Note: Earlier posts in the Scholar's Compass Learning to Live Together series: Approach, Disagreement, and Discernment. For Mark's previous work for the blog click here. To God be the glory! ~ Tom Grosh IV, Assoc. Dir., ESN … [Read more...] about Defensiveness
Disagreement
Mark Eckel is a longtime friend of ESN and has contributed to the blog many times, including writing a series on suffering and another on movies, as well as one of our most popular Scholar's Compass pieces on how housekeeping develops many of the same virtues in us as studying the liberal arts. You can find all of his previous work for the blog here. Mark continues his new series in today's post. He shares from his experience of discussion as a radio host for Warp and Woof, and as president of the Comenius … [Read more...] about Disagreement
Approach
Mark Eckel is a longtime friend of ESN and has contributed to the blog many times, including writing a series on suffering and another on movies, as well as one of our most popular Scholar's Compass pieces on how housekeeping develops many of the same virtues in us as studying the liberal arts. You can find all of his previous work for the blog here. We welcome him for a new series. In today's post, he shares from his experience of discussion as a radio host for Warp and Woof, president of the Comenius Institute. … [Read more...] about Approach