Month: October 2018
Small Teaching, Small Discipleship
Lang’s command of the pertinent learning research is so impressive and his approach to teaching so compelling, I left the book wondering where else the book’s principles could be deployed. More specifically, I wondered what the implications were for discipleship.
Inspiration in the Age of the Intellect—The Life of Dr. Britt Terry
Amanda Platz, Marshall Tankersley There aren’t many people you can tell are English-loving individuals, but Dr. Virginia “Britt” Terry is one such person. With her willowy figure and piercing eyes, you […]
Finding a Father in a World of Scientists
Rebecca Reese When you think about mad scientists and their creations, what do you think of? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein made through the methods of chemistry and alchemy? Dr. Faustus and […]
Me, Myself, and I
Julia Joyce “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson is an essay that contains pieces of truth, but it takes that truth to the extreme. Take this quote for example, “My life […]
Writers of the Past and Present
Miranda Alexander Inspiration is everywhere. It lurks within the darkest of alleys and pursues our interest of mind. Though it has the will and strength to conquer any brain it […]
Nathaniel Hawthorne May Have Been On To Something
Lyssa Henry At risk of sounding like an ultra-judgmental-of-other-Christians “Christian,” I would like to address something that I am reminded of upon reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Celestial Railroad. Hawthorne’s tale, […]
One for All!
Kit Schleifer Why would none of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales make it into the American Canon? Recently, in class, we discussed reasons for this, and among those was that […]
An Indian’s Looking Glass
David Stephens William Apess was born in 1798 in the small town of Colrain, Massachusetts where his people, the Pequots, mostly resided on two small reservations. Not long into his young life […]