A while back, I posted that I Just Have Nothing To Say — blogging and internet arguments just have a lot less interest to me than they used to. Partially, two years into a solid study of religion has validated SMBC-style cynicism, and partially, I’m preferring to spend time studying up on certain things I [...]
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
The Future
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 [...]
What am I doing?
One of the recurring struggles that I am having is the question: “What am I doing here?” I felt a strong calling to seminary in general and then to Duke in particular, but the lack of a strong calling beyond the doors of Duke has left me really struggling to find my own way, and [...]
