9/22/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… We discuss privilege and marginalization, Halloween decorations and costumes, Sam’s mysterious power over one corporation, and the new craze in people watching. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
9/15/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… We celebrate pumpkin lattes, teach Sam how to cheer, ask what Plato has to do with Christ, hear music from the Black Hills, and share memories of 9/11 and reactions to the commemoration of its 10th anniversary. Get episodes here, or click on the … More This Week on CWC: The Radio Show
9/8/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sam, Sara, Amy, and I discuss the Minnesota State Fair, disrespect for crop and seed art, the opening week of the NFL season, electric lawnmowers, and why ancient Athens looms so large over Western philosophy. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on … More This Week on CWC: The Radio Show
9/1/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sam, Amy, and I discuss being an intellectual in the church, the mystique of the Dallas Cowboys, and Christian responses to theatre. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
“You mean, like ‘CWC: The Radio Show’?” So asked my friend Stacey one June morning in 2006. It was our annual faculty workshop for the team-taught, multidisciplinary, 1st year course Christianity and Western Culture (CWC), and we had asked one of Bethel’s faculty IT consultants, Bob Kistler, to take us through some of the new … More CWC: The Radio Show, Season 11
The other day I mentioned that I was in the middle of writing my syllabus for HIS354 Modern Europe, one of the staples of my courseload at Bethel University. As any teacher reading this knows, offering the same class year in and year out can be the bane of one’s existence. It can become numbing … More The Blessings of Teaching the Same Course Again and Again
So, what’s this blog about? Well, I’m not about to to reject advice from anyone who can write a book about sabermetric analysis compelling enough to be turned into a Brad Pitt vehicle. Alas, another geeky guy who watches The Office mostly because of Jenna Fischer already has an incredibly well-written, long-established blog on baseball, … More Write What You Know
My enthusiasm for certain innovations notwithstanding, I’m not what you would call an “early adopter.” I bought an iPod Touch approximately two weeks before the iPad rendered it obsolete, and I still don’t own an iPhone. (When I renewed my T-Mobile contract recently and picked out the cheapest non-smart phone possible, my salesperson looked at … More What the World Needs Now…
The Pietist Schoolman 