education

Breaking the Educational Industrial Complex

Yesterday, I rambled for a while about the ways in which our burgeoning educational efforts have…
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.…
Teaching The Hunger Games series

There are some bandwagons worth jumping on, and Suzanne Collins’s YA series The Hunger Games proved worthy of…
Maximizing School Value

Steve Denning wrote an interesting piece in Forbes magazine a few weeks ago about why big companies ‘die”…
No, Really, Two Is More Than Enough

I think I’m beginning to understand in a TINY way how ridiculous it is that life…
On All Things Directorial

…Musings on theater, life, and directing…. seasoned with a bit of “after midnight.” And written in…
Stop Chasing Safety

The call of Christ to “take up your cross and follow me” is not a call…
The Tyranny of the “American Dream”

Somewhere along the way, Christian theology got hijacked by Horatio Algiers’s concept of the “American dream.”…