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“Trying to stop the waves behind your eyeballs” is too strong, but it does feel like I need a vacation. So while my wife, kids, and I spend a week visiting my parents in southwestern Virginia, I’m going to leave the laptop behind and take a break from blogging.
In the meantime, if you do stumble across this site and are wondering what it’s about… Yesterday’s post on this blog’s first year of existence does list the twenty-five most popular posts so far in its history; it’s a pretty good cross-section of what gets discussed here.
But my view of what’s an interesting post isn’t always shared by my audience… So for each of the blogging categories I most often use, here are two or three somewhat less widely read posts to get you started:
- Uncle Jim (a tribute to my uncle, the award-winning photographer)
- College Architecture and Christian Simplicity
- Church History as Family History (part 1)
- An Imposition (on Ash Wednesday)
- The Mystery of Communion
- Denial vs. Free Speech (on France banning genocide denial)
- Germany’s Place in the Sun (from the European financial crisis, as it looked back in December 2011)
- Educating for Wisdom
- A Different Significance: Online vs. F2F Education (part 1)
- Christian Colleges as Businesses
- The USA in 1940: The Petersons of Pierce County
- Commemorating World War I (part 1)
- There’s No Crying in History: Teaching the Holocaust
- My MTV Unplugged Moment (impossible to explain briefly)
- This Week in History (from last August 22nd — I just like the opening dialogue about war between Italy and Brazil…)
- Live (and Sing) in Harmony with One Another (an ode to the joys of four-part congregational singing)
- Radio Kings: “The Echo of a Voice” (why I want my favorite musicians to share my faith)
- David Brooks, Erasmus, and Luther Walk into a Bar… (and talk about leadership, justice, and service)
- We Take Care of Our Own: Standing with John Fea (against right-wing zealots calling for this well-respected American historian’s dismissal and damnation)
- Guilty Pleasures
- Teary Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose (still can’t believe Friday Night Lights is gone…)
The Pietist Schoolman 