The Quick and the Dead
This is the final reflection in a series on questioning and education in response to Matt’s new book. Cate MacDonald led things off, David J. Gilbert continued it, and Jonathan Mueller closes things down here. Like them, Jonathan teaches in...
The Surprising Similarities Between First Dates and Bad Textbooks
This is the second reflection in a series on questioning and education in response to Matt’s new book. Cate MacDonald led things off and David J. Gilbert, who teaches in The Academy at Houston Baptist University, continues it here. Way...
On Kids and Questions
Matt’s new book came out at a particularly providential time, at least for my own purposes. David J. Gilbert, Jon Mueller and I are in the midst of expanding and improving The Academy at Houston Baptist University, a junior high...
What Christmas Bells Might Mean
On my way home from work today, my favorite Christmas mix CD was playing, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” came on. It had been a long day at work, I was homesick and eager to get on my...
Of Women and the Freedom to be Holy
There is a story told in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein about a young French man and an Arabian woman who fall in love. As Frankenstein’s monster is telling his creator about how he came to understand language, sorrow, love, and human...
On Teaching Lambs
I lie awake at night, overwhelmed with the fear that I am participating in the greatest and most dangerous hubris, to think that I should teach. When I took my job at Houston Baptist University I knew, of course, that...
Charmlessness unto Godliness
I have recently found myself immersed in learning a hard lesson, much too slowly. It seems to have started with a lecture I heard at Wheatstone, in which John Mark Reynolds urged, as a side note to his topic, to...
I Went to Wheatstone. You Should Too.
Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of participating in Wheatstone Ministries’ annual summer conference, The Academy. The Academy is the most unusual of Summer Camps. High-schoolers of all ages, shapes, and sizes descend upon a chosen college campus, filling...
On Leaving Home: Vocation, Eternity, and Texas
Three weeks ago, in preparation for my move to Houston, TX, I moved out of my apartment. My beloved apartment. My beautiful, quiet, charming, perfect apartment. These next two weeks I am saying a lot of goodbyes; goodbyes to people...
To Go Where Two Men Have Gone Before
A few months ago I got a call that, quite unexpectedly, changed everything for me. It was from John Mark Reynolds, a name familiar to most of you here, founder of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola, new Provost of Houston...