When Will We Ever Use This In The Real World?

So much of education is about the “how” of things. We want someone to teach our kids how to be a businessman, how to be a finance guy, how to be a lawyer, how to be a doctor, how to teach, how fly a plane, how to build an engine, how to invest, how to be a...

Rousseau Before Sunrise, Sunset, and Midnight

The “Before Trilogy” is a must see. You ought to. I write assuming the reader has a basic familiarity with all three. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy act so well that they make me want to repent of everything I’ve ever done. But it’s more than...

Gentle Anger [Needs some formatting and Image]

Below is a paper I wrote this last semester. Forgive the formatting errors. I don’t have time to go back through the whole thing right now and make it perfect for wordpress. I did 135 hours of research for the paper, and wrote it over the course of three days....

On Meeting Alvin Plantinga

Few would question Alvin Plantinga’s brilliance. I had the privilege of hearing a lecture given by him on the supposed conflict between science and religion. The “religion” referenced was really just Christian theism. During the Q & A time after...

Mr. Stark

I was younger when I met him—he wore a patch over one eye while he taught his lessons, and how he swore that he saw what he saw. Nearly blind, Mr. Stark’s sweetness found ways to die. I didn’t know what he was or how to think of him. He saw things in the...