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Love, like Grace, always costs the giver [part 1]
In my former life as a teacher participating in an experiment — to see Grace-based education incarnated in a real classroom setting– at my school, we had many little sayings that tried to encapsulate the truths about Grace-in-education. One of my favorites, borrowed from the words of the ever-wise Cheryl Martin is this: Grace always…
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What’s the point of a teacher you can’t build a relationship with?
I’m getting to where it’s nearly impossible for me to envision teaching without seeing it as relational. I was reading a discussion about college faculty and their communication methods with students. Of course, people vary in the way they prefer to engage others, and the faculty/student relationship adds another wrinkle to that question. Most teachers today…
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Why I can’t buy into Ayn Rand (Part 2)
Yesterday I began a discussion of the recent uptick in interest in Ayn Rand’s economic ideas among conservatives. With half of my friends reading Rand’s novels and discussing how awesome her ideas of individualism are and how well that fits into their libertarian or highly-conservative political views, I felt like it was time for me to…
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Why I can’t buy into Ayn Rand (Part 1)
Is it just me, or is everyone I know reading Ayn Rand and nodding soberly, picking up pearls of wisdom to weave into a conservative economics of wealth production? I first heard of Rand many years ago when I ran across her commencement speech “Who Needs Philosophy?” which is actually a really good piece. She expounds…
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the great John Spong
Bishop John Spong is famous in Christianity for championing the rhetoric of liberal Christianity. Since the 70s, maybe earlier, he’s been writing and preaching and debating mostly conservative evangelicals on topics like biblical inspiration and inerrancy, the nature of the atonement, social issues, and issues related to Jesus and the Gospels. When I was at…
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