I am really liking this semester’s humanities class. A good group of students. Thoughtful, willing to ask questions and raise objections. I feel challenged by them and I hope to in turn challenge them. At least it won’t be like last...
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” -Flannery O’Connor
from essays about the student’s writing process: “…and then enter a coma here and there, where necessary.” me too. “…or spelt ‘to’ when I meant ‘too’.” Have we been reading too much...
The Phantom Professor’s Dialogue Assignment
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus...
Another in a recent spate of hearing about people I went to school with. Reading an article on Christians in Hollywood in World magazine this morning, the name Spencer Lewerenz jumped out at me. Wow, I went to school with a Spencer Lewerenz, I...
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his
point of view.” -Harper Lee
found while surfing: from a university in canada, list of links to academic sites. Concidentally, we stayed right near Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia when we were on our honeymoon week before last. (I found this link on the web page of...
another classic work. This one I’ve never read. It’s on my list. I think it would work well thematically with other works on my syllabus. I just need to find the time to get into it. here’s an academic webpage that does a good...
