(For the next few months, I have added responsibilities in my work at Southern Methodist University. Hence, my blogging will be even more spasmodic than usual for a while.) Fearing Moral Talk With this post I’ll bring to a
(For the next few months, I have added responsibilities in my work at Southern Methodist University. Hence, my blogging will be even more spasmodic than usual for a while.) Fearing Moral Talk With this post I’ll bring to a
This post is the third in a little series on college students and the worrisome choices they make. I’ve been thinking about the naive anthropology (theorizing about human beings, what we’re made of, how we’re designed, what are our problems
The “Why” of Bad Institutional Policy Officially, institutions of higher learning don’t care what college students do in their private lives, “after hours,” on their own time. I say institutionally, because, of course, most people who work in higher education
As I look at the title of this post, I can’t but think of Jane Austen. Given her interest in the emotional life, that reference may be more than coincidental. In parents’, teachers’, professors’ and Student Life staffs’ conversations, it
Imagine this scene: a group of twenty or so United Methodist leaders are gathered in a circle for the opening prayer of a weekend training in spiritual formation. The leader begins with asking each member of the group to center