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Read before We Write – Listen before We Speak
On December 4th, many Americans felt shock and a blend of emotions at the news report of a mysterious hooded man who shot and killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHeathcare. (USA Today Timeline found HERE.) Reports came and went about this assassination-style killing…
Barbara Brown Taylor Shares Her Gifts: A Fabulous Writer Can Make You Think
First, read this: The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor… Jesus never commanded me to love my religion. – Barbara Brown Taylor, from Holy Envy…
John McWhorter: A Credible Writer for Making Sense of a Complex America
One of the first discussions I have about readings with my college composition students is that two common components can get in the way of understanding new readings: 1) Vocabulary, and 2) lack of Background Knowledge. (Vocabulary being helpful explains itself, but Background Knowledge…
The Atlantic Scores Again: American Left and Centrists Can Learn from French Progressives and Centrists.
Read this story from the Atlantic’s Thomas Chatterton Williams about what happened this July in France when problems with a growing Far Right movement (think anti-immigrant, pro-business, smaller-government, but much more complex than that) threatened everything. France, at first, floundered. Then it didn’t. It…
Cycles of Change and Stability – Finding Purpose in the Normal – Great Song
One thing I love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. One thing I DON’T love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. There is comfort in the sameness and there can be stagnation in it…
John Lewis is a Hero; John Lewis is My Hero
Civil Rights leader and US Representative John Lewis recently passed away. People who do not think of John Lewis as a hero are missing something. Either they don’t know how tirelessly he fought for equality and justice, without throwing an insult or a punch….
Would You Keep Reading? (YA Novel in texts)
So I went to the library to drop off a book or three and I saw this interesting looking book on the new Young Adult table. I picked it up intending to flip through it and go, but 30 minutes later I was still…
