Category: Reflections
-
Why blogging still matters from The Boston Globe
Anyone could talk, even though not everyone was as skilled a rhetorician (or even grammarian) as the professionals populating the pages of professional newspapers. The imperfections of our posts, we hoped, would help legitimize a more human, less controlled form of public speech. But, we thought, the most important challenge blogging posed was to the…
-
Tiny Band, Big Heart – Texas Monthly
Twenty-five strong after a bass drummer got his grades up and earned eligibility, the Rotan Yellowhammers got their first look inside San Antonio’s Alamodome, where they would perform the next day in the state marching competition. The 72,000 seats in the stadium were a far cry from Rotan’s 400-capacity football field. Source: Tiny Band, Big…
-
Compline
Since the early days of the Church, there has been a tradition of praying the psalms throughout the day, which evolved to the current Liturgy of the Hours. The tradition has mostly centered over the centuries in monastic communities, particularly in those that follow the Rule of St. Benedict. Christian monasticism existed for generations before…
-
Future of Work and the Future Generation
“You’re going to go somewhere to work with your coworkers? Why?”
-
Stephen Colbert and Facing Death
Not too long ago, GQ published a fantastic article on Stephen Colbert as he prepares to take the reigns of The Late Show from the 23-year veteran David Letterman. I like Colbert. From everything I’ve heard of him, he’s a man who is simply solid. A man of faith, of family, of generally trying to…
-
Seeing Race
The moment that many white students walk into my course they are experiencing a series of firsts: The first time many of them have had a black teacher or professor. The first time many of them have ever taken a class dealing with African-American history. The first time many of them have been in…