Having plugged the CIRCE conference, below, let me also plug that of the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education, which is having its annual conference here at Patrick Henry College just outside of Washington, D.C., on August 5-7. I’ll be speaking, among with many others. If
I’ll be speaking on comedy and classical education on July 24-26 in Houston at the annual conference of the CIRCE Institute[Consulting and Integrated Resources for Classical Education], led by my former student and now classical Christian education guru Andrew Kern. The whole conference is on
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki should not be criticized for calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops. He is doing us a huge favor! From <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080708/D91PQ1PO0.html"Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable for US troops: Iraq’s national security adviser said Tuesday his country will
The readers and commenters on this blog are a rare group, pursuing a higher and more civil level of discourse than I have seen on any other blog. Now that the post An Atheist’s Testimony has nearly a hundred comments and is still going strong,
Consider this development in the government’s attempt to shore up the mortgage market: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson swung the weight of the federal government behind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the beleaguered companies that buy or finance almost half of the $12 trillion of U.S.
People are sensitive about the government infringing upon their privacy, but they don’t seem to mind when online or on-cell-phone companies do. Here is an article about the marriage between GPS systems and cell phones: When the Phone Goes With You, Everyone Else Can Tag
Well, we are back from our vacation. I will report on our adventures by means of a list of words and phrases: near death experience; backroads; family; reconnecting with an old classmate; worshipping at Grace Lutheran, a great church in Tulsa; BBQ galore; canoes; rafts;
Friends, we’re en route to Oklahoma, where much of the time we will be at beautiful Lake Tenkiller, far away from the internet and probably even cell phone coverage. So I’ll be taking a break from blogging, though I’ll be back a week from Monday.
Happy Birthday, America! Here is something to ponder on this memorial day to the Declaration of Independence: Back in 1776, both Christians and Deists considered it “self-evident” that human beings were “created” and thus had equal moral and spiritual standing before God. Furthermore, the “Creator”
In the “secret identity” post, “Cindy” outed herself as the former Cindy Evers, one of my former students. Others have shown up from time to time. Are any of you readers former students of mine? I realize that I passed so few of you that
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