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July 2015

July 20, 2015

“No limits,” he lied.

The worst liar I ever knew was my athletic trainer, though I doubt he meant...

July 11, 2015

Work Together: Happening in Houston

Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East. Black churches are being burned down in...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Find Good Friends and Stick It Out OR How Harry Potter got me to Wheatstone this Summer (Part II/III)

The Harry Potter books helped create my summer vacation at Wheatstone Academy this summer. Harry Potter is a...

February 2015

February 06, 2015

End This Privilege!

Plane rides always let me listen to fascinating conversations: when you have no choice it...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Three Simple Truths about Education

This week will mark the 31st year of teaching and here are three simple truths:...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Jesus, Educator: A Higher Education, Part (IV/IV)

I have been told by marketing friends that in the United States only Abraham Lincoln...

September 01, 2014

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Higher Education (III/IV)

If you do not know Jesus, you will not go to Heaven when you die,...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Don’t Just Be Nice: A Higher Education (II/IV)

As the bill for school comes due, many of us ask: “Why pay for higher...

August 30, 2014

A Higher Education (I/IV)

Students return, professors are prepared, staff is ready: education continues. I love this time of...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

Knowledge needs Jesus

"Wisdom comes from God, knowledge from school. Seek wisdom and knowledge." That is a jolly Christian...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Men in the Arena

Friday reminds me why HBU is a higher education: the school is doing things and not...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

On Loving and Honoring My Parents

How do you honor your parents or childhood church if you fundamentally disagree with important...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

Avoiding Liberal Arts Snobbery in Myself

I am a recovering liberal arts snob. Liberal arts advocates feel besieged for good reason....

September 2013

September 20, 2013

A Whole Soul: The Goal of Education (Part IV)

What should I want for those I love? I want them to be happy, of...

September 19, 2013

A Thoughtful Soul: Part of Being Whole (Part III)

I think, therefore I am. So runs the one of the few philosophical quotations almost...

September 16, 2013

An Erotic Soul: Part of Being Whole (Part I)

Nobody is a Vulcan, not even Vulcans, if Star Trek canon is to be believed:...

August 2013

August 07, 2013

Oh Houston!

If I tell people not from Houston, I moved to Houston from Los Angeles, people...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Thoughts on Science and Faith (Part III)

This is the last part in an informal series on "faith" and what Christians mean...

July 10, 2013

Thoughts on Faith and Science (Part II)

I posted some informal thoughts on faith in Part I. In Part II, I examine...

July 09, 2013

Thoughts on Faith and Science (Part I)

If theism is true, then we might see God.1 No greater good can be imagined...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

So Happy I Could Shout

Let's get this out of the way: Lee Strobel is coming onto the Apologetics team...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

Out of Many One

States and the federal government should abandon any mandated common educational core: even common cores...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

What School Does

We live in dangerous times . . . last year I drove to class and...

August 03, 2012

On Education: What My Nana Taught Me

My Nana was a wise woman, but she attended little formal school: at most, eight...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Seventeen Years of Learning Seventeen Things

Today is the last Torrey Honors Institute event over which I will ever preside as...

May 14, 2012

A Few Needs

Times being what they always are: times are hard. Christians are not discouraged for the...