A critique of postmodern literary theory.
Dressing up old ideas in post-modern clothes
Download the mp3s here Surprisingly enough (to me) this was at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Two very good lectures and also a good two-part panel discussion where Pearce’s cockney sounds quite fun next to the other prof’s...
I stumbled across the weblog of a community of cloistered Domenican sisters in New Jersey. Yes, that’s right New Jersey! You know these ladies have their heads on straight and their hearts in the right place because the permanent picture on...
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...