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Archive for October, 2008

Sitting like Job’s friends…

The book of Job has long been used as a book to try to explain the problem of why bad things happen to good people or why evil exists, etc. The story begins with the telling of a “bet” between God and Satan about a man named Job. Job was by all accounts [...]

Wassup? 2008….True…

Huffpost put this up in their Sunday roundup.  I hadn’t seen it yet…it ends with a very poignant message.
True.

A Vision of Students Today Revisted

I have connected deeply with Michael Wesch’s work at Kansas State University. He has put together some marvelous work on the ways that students learn (or don’t learn) today and the ways that the educational system is not meeting students where they are at. On his blog, he recently posted a re-visiting of [...]

Last Night’s Debate = Super Bowl XXII

Last night’s debate was probably one of the most engaging debates that I have watched in my political life.  I appreciated the fact that both candidates actually talked to one another, challenged one another, gave some specifics about their positions, about what they were planning on doing, and also specifics that challenged their opponent in [...]

Anti-intellectualism in the election…

I have been struck twice in the last 14 hours by discussions about anti-intellectualism and the upcoming presidential election.  This discussion is nothing new and I likely will not be covering any new ground with my post here, but I continue to be mystified by the idea that we want our president (and our other [...]

Life in the already but not yet…

Its been a bit of a while since my last post here, but that’s largely because of the crazy amount of transition going on in my life right now.  In the last week (amazing that its just been that long), I was officially extended a call (aka “getting a job” in terms other than how [...]

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