I just began reading through an anthology of Stanley Hauerwas’ works, The Hauerwas Reader. I am still very early into the readings, still going through his project & methodology, but came across this great contrast of thought: The Lutheran theologian Gilbert Meilaender is much closer to the truth when he suggests that two of the most basic [...]

After teaching Wednesday nights, I’m usually in either a good mood or a really bad disappointed mood. This week was the latter. Whatever the mood, it usually is reflected in the following day also. For basically 24 hours I was sunk into a self-loathing state, all simply from my sense of failure. This teaching engagement [...]