My class on World Christianity in America was cancelled, so now I have a new schedule: Theology in the Black Church Tradition (J. Cameron Carter) — Highly recommended course on the black church from a highly recommended professor. Intro to Christian Preaching (C. Campbell) — The mandatory preaching class so that I don’t walk out [...]
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
Duke
It'll Be Okay, So Stop Worrying
Back when I was an atheist struggling with depression, I had a little saying that I stole from somewhere: Either you’re healthy or you’re sick. If you’re healthy, you don’t have anything to worry about. If you’re sick, either you’ll get better or you won’t. If you’ll get better, you don’t have anything to worry [...]
Next Semester and the Rest of My Life:
Out of Social Sciences
(for the moment)
So, to recap: I was going to take POLISCI209: Computational Political Economics, but it was cancelled. So I shifted to SOCIOL225: Economic Sociology. Both of these were on the basis that a doctoral program in the social sciences is going to want to see a successful social science course on my transcript, and next semester [...]
