Marilynne Robinson and Great American Novels
The kind folks at the National Association of Scholars invited me to be on a panel about Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. Here’s the recording:
When Tough Love Isn’t Enough
Lessons on leadership from Last Chance U. “Sometimes, I may let some things go. One day I may address it, one day I don’t… I see a young man and I can’t stand his behavior, his activity, and I always Continue Reading …
Pride and Humility in Education
Over at the Christian Scholar’s Review: In a New York Times article, Jeanne Marie Laskus (2019) reports a story of Fred Rogers’s—of Mister Rogers—fame. He was invited to be part of a panel for the president. After speaking, he quickly left and Continue Reading …
An Education that Turns on Affection
On what the COVID pandemic can teach us about education over at The Front Porch Republic “Without this love, education is only the importation into the local community of centrally prescribed ‘career preparation’ designed to facilitate the export of young Continue Reading …
Liberal Arts for Lament
The liberal arts certainly aren’t a fix or savior for pandemics, but they do cultivate a sense of meaning beyond achievement. In essence, they help form a certain type of person more than a certain set of skills. The liberal Continue Reading …
Addicted to Entertainment and Distraction
In this article at Christ and Pop Culture, I use David Foster Wallace, Roger Scruton, and Hans Urs von Balthasar to comment on the addictive nature of consumer entertainment and how true beauty might be an antidote to addiction. True Continue Reading …
Loving and Leaving Place
But this is our human task: to love the imperfect, to love what shocks us. If we insisted on perfection, after all, no place could ever suit us. But home is a special case, like a mirror held up to Continue Reading …
Holy Week
A turning point in my travel down Canterbury road included walking through Holy Week. As a clergy person now, it can be an exhausting week. But walking faithfully through the week allows me to fully enter in the joy of Continue Reading …
Pastoral Professing
I thought my pastoral background was a hindrance to the professorial life. But as I got in the classroom, I found that my pastoring helped my teaching. In this article at the Christian Scholar’s Review, I reflect on why.
Ted Lasso
You know, I think if you care about someone, and you got a little love in your heart, there ain’t nothing you can’t get through together. Ted Lasso Ted Lasso on Apple+ was the gem I did not expect during Continue Reading …
