The Grandest Insult

Three Types of Student Roam Campus
What’s the worst thing you can say to the student body of a research university?
That they could stand to study a bit more.
The funny thing, of course, is that Wednesday’s Red and Black opinion column never goes anywhere near where I’ve gone in recent days, condoning as it does some [...]

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Good Meeting Today

I can’t immediately think of any famous groups of five people in the Bible (five books, yes–five people, no), but nonetheless our first meeting, this afternoon at Doc Chey’s, was a good one.  Our Moreland reading was very brief, so there wasn’t too much discussion of that, but we did have very good talks about [...]

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Correction Regarding September’s Meeting

Next week we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, September 23, not Wednesday, September 24, at Doc Chey’s on Jackson and Clayton in Athens.  Many apologies for the wandering time slot.  The topic of discussion will still be the introduction and first chapter of Moreland’s book.

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Some Initial Thoughts About Moreland’s Book from an English teacher

First, the monthly meeting, unless I hear differently, looks like it’s going to be on Wednesday, September 24 Tuesday, September 23 at Doc Chey’s on the corner of Jackson and Clayton in downtown Athens at 12:30 PM.  (I don’t know why I sandwiched the location between two time designations, but there are many things I [...]

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Textual Criticism from Parchment and Pen

Textual Criticism in a Nutshell
I should say a bit about Parchment and Pen.  It’s a ministry run by two seminary grads who are dedicated to bringing theological education to those who haven’t the time or the money to spend the years to get a seminary degree.  In other words, their project and ours are very [...]

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Religion Classes

I write this post to discuss college classes that address religion, specifically religious texts.  From my point of view, college students that enter college being a member of one religion may find taking a class about religion to be difficult.
Attending a church service, worshipping in a mosque, or meditating in nature are considered by many [...]

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High School Youth Group?

Reading this article over at the Chronicle of Higher Education website, I was wondering about how other folks imagine high school youth groups influencing or not influencing our actual intellectual lives.  I’ve got good friends from college and seminary who, as far as I’m concerned, do a heck of a job bringing some fairly high-level [...]

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