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March 2014

March 07, 2014

Courage Defined

I came across several variations on the image below. It is certainly an apocryphal story,...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Finding Your Vocation

This video features a Butler graduate, Dr. Stephanie Slemp, who majored in religion, talking about...

February 04, 2014

The Value of a Liberal Arts Education

Peter Drucker wrote the following more than half a century ago in his book his...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

First Day of Classes

Today was the first day of classes at Butler University, as in many other places....

January 03, 2014

Google Glass in Class

I have the opportunity to be one of the Google Glass Explorers and try out...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

So apparently now you can "like" things not only beyond Facebook, but even on paper....

October 31, 2013

Churches and Intellectuals

Stephen Mattson has written a piece for Sojourners, "Do Churches Alienate Intellectuals?" Here is a...

October 26, 2013

World of Biblecraft

Chris Heard wrote recently about his effort to "gamify" a course he teaches. Here's a...

October 21, 2013

If Education is Against Your Beliefs

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Religion and the MOOCs

Scot McKnight blogged recently about "the MOOC delusion." I think it is fair to say that...

September 21, 2013

Creationism and Religious Freedom

Today my class on "Religion and Freedom of Expression" met for the first time. It...

September 08, 2013

Viva La Library with Arabic Subtitles!

So, the information literacy song I made, "Viva La Library," has been subtitled with Arabic...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Brace Yourselves

Today is the first day of classes at Butler University, and so a meme image...

August 25, 2013

But Have Not Love

Let me begin with a paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13, reworked for students: If I...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Bryan Bibb on Religious Studies, the Bible, and Liberal Education

Bryan Bibb has uploaded a talk he gave with the title "Why Are You Here?...

July 22, 2013

Online and Hybrid Teaching Resources

Several items of interest have come my way today. The Chronicle of Higher Education had...

July 04, 2013

Training Jesus

The Gospel of Luke depicts a Jesus who learned. Many fundamentalists view Jesus as someone...

July 01, 2013

Professing Themselves to be Wise

Why is it that those who have never studied a topic, and yet are confident...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Why Study Humanities?

This is the answer given by John Horgan in Scientific American to science and engineering students...

June 20, 2013

Information Literacy Song Lead Sheets

I had a request for lead sheets (lyrics and chords) for the three information literacy...

June 07, 2013

Imperfect Views of Reality

In a blog post about denialism, Mark Hoofnagle writes: Denialism in most people is a defense...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Viva La Library (The Information Literacy Song)

I was looking recently for an amusing song to convey key points about information literacy...

May 23, 2013

The Penalty for Citing Wikipedia

John Anderson shared on Facebook the wonderful threat he makes to students if they should...

May 20, 2013

Christ’s Elementary Word

Yesterday in my Sunday school class we discussed Hebrews 5:11-6:3. After a bit of discussion...

May 03, 2013

That’s No Research Paper

Via Joel Watts

May 03, 2013

Acts 26:18 (Bogus Internet Version)

I had a student provide this quote, supposedly from Acts 26:18, in an assignment: The...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

Ken Ham, Moses, and Jesus

Ken Ham has posted a reaction on Facebook to an image I shared on my...

April 26, 2013

Shamed By You Knowing Science?

Scott Bailey included this image in a recent post: One thing that struck me about...

April 11, 2013

Scholarship in the Blogosphere

There are several interesting topics that I think I can bring together under this heading....

March 2013

March 15, 2013

Dinosaurs in a Classroom

Click through to see an excellent cartoon by Mark Parisi. There's a parable in it about...

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