The purpose of this blog post is to give writers an illustration for something unhelpful they may be doing to readers… and to encourage them not to do it. I need to clarify up front – this blog is not about poetry or about types of writing that, as a genre, are not supposed to …
Making Readers Hydroplane: a Caution for Writers Read More »
I have included below, the bulk of C.S. Lewis’s essay “On the Reading of Old Books” and have left out the latter portion about a recent translation of Athanasius’s On the Incarnation. The entire essay was originally the introduction to a new translation of On the Incarnation. Eventually, Lewis’s wonderful intro was included in God …
In 2022 I began working as an administrator at a classical school in Fullerton, CA. I’m currently undergoing a learning curve with classical education. For those unfamiliar with classical education, it is a movement that has been growing in the US since the 1970’s; its focus is often on liberal arts education (not political liberalism …
People mistakenly think they are committed to things that they are in fact not committed to. In reality they only desire those things. More often than not we are committed to what is familiar, immediate, and easy. Let me explain: Over the last few months, there has drifted in and out of my thinking the …
Over the last few days I’ve come across a piece of research, more than once, suggesting that a high IQ doesn’t protect you from certain kinds of bias. The first was a defeating-defeater style video by Inspiring Philosophy. The video attempts to undercut claims that a higher IQ leads to atheism. Instead it seems that …
Research Suggests “Smart” People Are Better at Bending Data to Fit Their Biases Read More »
I am writing my dissertation on critical realism. More specifically I am putting critical realism in conversation with analytic theology. Critical realism feels something like a 1960’s to early 2000’s topic. Except for a form that emerged in the early decades of the 20th century, most critical realists did their work in the last quarter …
Will the Real “Critical Realism” Please Stand Up? Read More »
The purpose of this post is primarily to give me a place to add resources as I find them from time to time. Dictionaries & Lexicons lexilogos.com/english/latin_dictionary.ht This site has several links to dictionaries including Perseus. online-latin-dictionary.com This is an excellent dictionary. Not only will it find Latin forms, it will give you a link that allows you […]
Its seems that every week I come across an article about how unhealthy pursuing a PhD can be. I’m not talking about how “sitting is the new smoking” – that would be a problem for academics as well. Instead, I’m referring to the mounting evidence that PhD work leads to mental health problems for startling …
For the last year, I have been participating in a group of 6 or 7 people (three postdocs, my supervisor, and a fellow Ph.D. student) reading and giving feedback on each other’s papers. We typically read book chapters prior to submission to publication, and journal articles prior to submission to publishers. From time to time a …
Advice I’ve Gleaned From a Year With a PhD Writing Feedback Group. Read More »
(This is one of two posts moved from a separate site that I began blogging on before choosing to set up my own site). I am in the second quarter of my Ph.D. program at Fuller Seminary (I’m working in Systematic Theology with a concentration on anthropology an interest in analytic philosophy/theology). I am reminded of …
Discovering myself in the Matrix… the other matrix. Read More »