I have realized lately the sad state of people’s understanding of Christian beliefs. I have seen many people of varied backgrounds, many living their whole life around the church, have murky if not simply wrong beliefs about the basic tenets of faith. I’m not saying that I expect everyone to have deep theological education, spending [...]

In Caputo’s book More Radical Hermeneutics while making a point gives the following example, children today go online and study about Greek tragedy. The ease in which they are able to access this knowledge colors their understanding and learning about the Greek idea, one of struggle and difficulty. Though Caputo doesn’t say much more in [...]

Just a few more weeks of this, and then I am due for a break…

I made my first syllabus. Well I spent a majority of yesterday working out a syllabus for my Romans class. I had been putting it off for few weeks now. Partly the reason was I needed to finish working through the text so as to get a big picture of what is going on, but [...]

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]

For everyone who wished they could go to MIT but didn’t have the money or just weren’t smart enough, now MIT can come to you via the web. MIT has available a large selection of lectures which they have taped and posted to the web for anyone to enjoy. The subject listings are extensive, so [...]

This continues my recent thoughts about jobs and intellectual culture. There is a front page article in the New York Times today about a creationist scientist who has recently finished his doctoral work in geosciences from U of Rhode Island. The catcher is that he doesn’t really believe in the work that he did. The [...]

In my last post, I talked about and posed many questions about what the choices I’m facing for the future. Jake was so kind as to give a very interesting reply in regards to the post relating to a book he is reading. The book says, from what a gather, that Christendom today doesn’t hold [...]

So it never fails, this time of the semester, right after midterms, I just check out mentally. It’s really not by any choice of my own, at least not consciously. I just find it find to study, or really focus on anything school related. I just get mentally tired of thinking about the subject no [...]

Walking home after classes this morning, wondering what I would eat for lunch. I really didn’t have anything to eat. I had a cookie to eat this morning, just to stave off the pains (it was an oatmeal cookie, so I justify it being 50% healthy). Low and Be Hold! Dale Bumpers to the rescue. [...]