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This past August, Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR published Traitor, the debut novel of Amanda…

Some time ago, I noticed a poster on a departmental noticeboard at my university bearing…

When I was a young kid, I watched my dad do other things besides parent…

Related to kinesis, Greek for movement, the word cinema resonates with the beginnings described at…

Thanks to my friend and colleague Kent Van Til for his thoughtful response to my…

A recent Netflix documentary titled The Social Dilemma interviews several engineers who had helped build…

It’s Ash Wednesday, a time of repentance, and I’m put in mind of an artist…

Landscape view of Salsberry Peak in the Pahrump Hills region, Gale Crater, Mars. Inset: Curiosity…

After the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in July 2020, I participated in…

My friend Todd Steen has written a good and thoughtful article about providing a Universal…

“Christ Animated Learning” is an inspired title for this blog, for Christ the Logos (“word,…

Contemporary culture is obsessed with the human body. It (that is, the body) carries so…

Although I am a college professor, I must confess that my most important education during…

A mere four years – something of a lifetime – ago, the Berkley Center asked…

Deep into the throes of last semester—at that juncture when I invariably lose the pedagogical…

“Just do it.”  That was not the mantra of Nike being repeated in a recent…

Back in 1996, my husband and I had a heated debate over the former Federal…

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road…

Being an athlete is often depicted as being interchangeable with striving for glory.  Indeed the…

We were in the middle of a staff retreat when the events related to the…