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I teach at a university that requires its students to take Bible courses. We’re a Christian university, and the tradition of our religious heritage has placed a very high value on biblical literacy. I am a fully-vested and dues-paying member of that club with all the rights and privileges pertaining there unto; I have always… Continue reading Furniture of the Mind

Image from Hall's (2021) article "5 ways to secure productive efficiency in 2021" This post runs a little inductive; I'll make my point at the end. Every week, since March 14th of 2020, I've looked at my task-list, and deferred the task "Write a blog post." By my count, I've deferred that task 45 consecutive… Continue reading Doing Less Better

Some of you use to read my old web-site, The Productive Nerd. I expalined just a bit why I took that site down here, - but that doesn't mean that I stopped thinking about productivity in higher education. One my primary frustrations in higher ed is the lack of control we have in the selection… Continue reading Productive Nerd – TextExpander and Grading

I have recently been engaged in several different conversations that seem to emanate from the same core question: what does it mean to engage with students in the online setting, and what are the (potentially) distinctive features of Christian online education. Parker Palmer (2010) accurately defined one of the primary ironies of spirituality and higher… Continue reading Christian Virtue in Education

I received an email from a student who was apologizing for failing to turn in an assignment. That's unusual, in my experience. More often, students send emails describing why my "no late work policy" is evidence that my parents lacked the virtue of marital status upon the occasion of my birth. But this student said… Continue reading I Promise…

As Cole and I prepare for Episode 9 of our podcast (still collecting them before deployment), I'm working on the problem of justification in epistemology, with an eye toward the role of the Christian in the public square. In recent years, I have noticed a new kind of agnosticism in Christian (evangelical) circles. I know… Continue reading “What is Truth?”