Month: November 2017
English Professors, Fascinated by Science
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director Alan Honour begins his book Cave of Riches: The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls with how young Muhammid Ahmed el-Hamed (of the Ta’amireh Bedouin tribe) was searching for […]
Making Good Inductive Arguments
David Stubblefield, Senior Editor The famous 18th century, Scottish philosopher David Hume claimed that we cannot know for certainty that the sun will rise tomorrow. His reasoning rested on his […]
Carpe Diem—Seizing and Redeeming Time in College
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director As college students, you know that one of the hardest challenges is finding “balance” in your daily life: balancing work, relationships, life, and assignments. What classes […]
Nailed—500 Years of Reformation
Rev. Bob Black Dr. Robert Black is a professor of Church History at Southern Wesleyan University. In the following video, Dr. Black discusses the history of the Reformation on the […]
Theology Lived in the Heart—A Conversation With Dr. Bob Black
Melissa Woodland Dr. Robert Black is Professor of Religion at Southern Wesleyan University. He is the author of How Firm a Foundation, a history of Southern Wesleyan, and co-author of The Story of the […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alfred the Butler, and the classic Man in the White Suit
Dakota Smith Have you ever had an idea that your peers have not supported? Have you ever felt like you were underestimated? How did people react when you proved them […]
Freedom’s Hill Church
Matt Heerschap, SWU Videographer Dr. Robert Black is a professor of Church History at Southern Wesleyan University. In the following video, Dr. Black discusses the history of Freedom’s Hill Church. The […]
Negative Perceptions of Black English and its Speakers
Sadie Wyant The following presentation was given on November 4, 2017 at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference (SAMLA) in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation was given in partial fulfillment […]
Wayne C. Booth—Jane Austen, Emma, and Ironic Distance
Priscilla Collins In his essay “Control of Distance in Jane Austen’s Emma” (which is taken from his more seminal work, The Rhetoric of Fiction), critic and University of Chicago professor Wayne […]
O.J. Simpson—A Life of Crime, Possible CTE, and the Outliving of a Legendary Status
Skylar Taylor, Student Editor After being convicted in 2008 for armed robbery and kidnapping in Nevada, after coauthoring a book called If I Did It, after his $33.5 million ‘wrongful […]
House of Cards, On and Off Screen, To the End…?
Shawndre’ Young The phrase ‘house of cards’ is a well-known (and perhaps overused) idiom for an untenable situation that will collapse on itself if one part of the precarious balance […]
C.S. Lewis and Ways of Writing
Jessica Mau In his essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” C.S. Lewis explains the ways books are written for young readers. Two of the examples that Lewis provides […]