Currently reading: The Human Factor by Graham Greene 📚
Currently reading: The Human Factor by Graham Greene 📚
Currently reading: The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.📚
Currently reading: To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Cox Richardson. 📚
Not as exciting as the title would indicate.
And definitely not exciting once you log in.
Current status: Johnny Cash, “The Beast in Me.”
Currently reading: Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy by K. Healan Gaston. 📚
… until it doesn’t.
It works …
In 2017, I changed the topic of my digital methods class to Reconstruction. Twenty days before that class meets this year, a mob organized on social media flying the Confederate battle flag stormed the Capitol while a Southern senator proposed an Electoral Commission.
My internal monologue upon assigning the Gospel of Mark:
“Hmm. Should I scan this reading for the students?”
“The Gospel of Mark might be the most widely distributed text in the history of humanity. I think they can find themselves a copy.”
“Saves time, and also educational.”
I’m teaching The Global History of Christianity this semester. It is far and away my favorite course to teach, even though I feel humbled—and almost crushed—by the weight of the subject.
The most recent issue of my newsletter points you to two songs about death and breath. Johnny Cash and Jimmie Rodgers.
I put a photos widget on my phone, and everyday it turns up a half dozen picture like this one.
My daughter made a genuine game, with a start screen and levels, all in Google Slides. You move a little spaceship around a city called Galactic X. It’s pretty cool. Now, the rest of her schooling …
📰 Newsletter: Presbyterians—tabulated, visualized, and interpreted.
Currently reading: Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz. 📚
A bitter cup.
Today’s task: remembering what in the world I was doing the last time I touched this project.
Currently reading: Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn. 📚
Consider the lilies of the field.
9 y.o.: “Daddy, can I ask you a question.”
Me: “Yes.”
9 y.o.: “Does anyone actually read your book?”
“Everybody’s Bible Box”
“To cast a free ballot ・A root of democracy”
The 4 y.o. wrote this letter (without help!) to his grandparents, who could not come visit this summer. It is beautiful and heartbreaking.
“MA AND PA i LOVE YOU TO[O] BUT YOU [ARE] AT YOUR HAWS MY [A]ND DAD[D]Y LOVE”
Currently reading: Religion and Profit: Moravians In Early America by Kate Carté. 📚