I was excited about Poli Sci 209: Computational Economics, but just got a notice saying that it was cancelled. So this interrupted my regularly scheduled freaking-out-about-the-Christian-Theology-final-tomorrow with a new session of freaking-out-about-what-I-am-doing-next-semester. For review, here’s my summary about the Poli Sci course I wrote up: POLISCI 209 Computational Political Economics — Introduction to the field [...]
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
Dear Fellow Christians:
This is what we sound like to everyone else.
If you haven’t seen this video yet, it’s worth watching: As Christians, that’s what we sound like to everyone else. I know, because I can empathize with those outside the faith: being in Christian Theology and American Christianity and going through those readings, I spend a lot of the time just going, “Wait—we believe what?!?” [...]
Surrendering the Ph.D.
And Other Kierkegaardian Therapies
Venerable Father Abraham! Second Father of the race! You who were the first to feel and bear witness to the prodigious passion that disdains the terrifying battle with the raging elements and the forces of creation in order to contend with God, you who were first to know that supreme passion, the holy, pure, and [...]
