Category Archives: Culture

Infallibility

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

My wife is a third grade school teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and then went for an extra year to get her teaching credential. She goes to conferences, she takes seminars, she takes college classes, and … Continue reading →

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Hamburgers

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

There is nothing I like better than a good hamburger or cheeseburger. Some of my earliest memories of eating burgers come from visits in Ohio with my great aunt Loule. My mother and I would go with her to a … Continue reading →

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Chocolate

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Chocolate is one of those things that we take for granted and probably can’t imagine not having around. And yet, like so many other things, its origins are relatively recent. No chocolate cakes were served at the first Thanksgiving, for … Continue reading →

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Fixing Social Ills

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

As a theologian, I unsurprisingly sometimes think about the poor. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew prophets spend most of their time on but two issues: idolatry and the treatment of the poor. In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, recorded … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan … Continue reading →

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Christianizing Christmas

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

Increasingly, Christmas displays have been removed from government owned buildings. For instance the Fox News channel reported a few years ago that the City Manager of Eugene Oregon, Jim Johnson, banned all Christmas trees and other “religious-themed” holiday displays from … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Many of us affect a tone of irony about gadgets, as if we lived always in realms above and dealt with trifles only during rare descents from sublime thoughts. The truth is that more and more of the important things … Continue reading →

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Education

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

I ran across this cartoon–or one similar to it–on Facebook and it got me to thinking. It used to be that when children received poor grades in school, or didn’t do well on tests, it was the children who got … Continue reading →

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The Urgency of Today

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

I am so much lost in the urgency of today, that I have nearly forgotten my life. I busy myself with the tasks I must do, and fail to remember the joy. I have trouble dredging up even a single … Continue reading →

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