For some time I’ve noticed a perplexing quality of college student word use. Here are a couple of examples: “I have to miss class tomorrow and I was wondering if I could get the information that you’re going to cover.”
For some time I’ve noticed a perplexing quality of college student word use. Here are a couple of examples: “I have to miss class tomorrow and I was wondering if I could get the information that you’re going to cover.”
I just finished a book by an author not so enamored with the effects of technology on the “net generation.” Entitled, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, (Penguin, 2008), it mounts massive
Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians has been holding me for weeks. I’ve blogged already about Paul’s vulnerable, transparent witness: “You are our letters of commendation,” he says to the Corinthians (chapter 3). Paul has no structural, organizational props for
Among the requisite qualities for my new job as SMU Chaplain, I find these three: (1) passionate commitment to Christ, (2) strong United Methodist identity and (3) openness to people of other faiths. The third point is particularly important because
Not far from where I live is a nationwide (I think) drive-in, no appointment necessary, oil-change business. I regularly drive and jog by this place and have even succumbed to having my vehicle serviced there, on desperate occasions. Every