Academically, there is a whole lot going on right now. Finishing Spring Semester — Aside from a week-in, week-out 100-odd vocab words and translations for my “Greek” and “Hebrews” courses, I’ve got two small-ish “close reading” papers for “Ethics” (worth 25% of my grade each), a term paper for “Mapping India”, and a term paper [...]
Living Leadings
Religious, Spiritual, and Scholarly Considerations from Robert C. Fischer
One rarely knows what is good for us and what is bad. Therefore if we knowingly put ourselves in the hands of Almighty, whatever happens must be deemed good. And I try literally to follow that precept.
Gandhi, "Letter to Francesca Standenath", April 1947
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Negative versus Positive Peace:
A World of Difference
During the last semester, I’ve taken to watching Penn and Teller’s scandalous “Bullshit” via Netflix’s instant streaming. It’s a wonderful romp through the kind of adolescent know-it-all arrogance and crackpot craziness that I love from the internet, except without having to do all that tedious trolling and baiting and reading. It’s also pretty much the [...]
