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Category Archives: Education

The Vicious “virtues”

March 28, 2014

Greed, gluttony, lust, envy, [and] pride are no more than sad efforts to fill the empty place where love belongs, …

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Odyssey Leadership Academy

March 11, 2014

As followers of this blog know, I have long been in pursuit of a better story for education. As my …

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Teaching for Plowshares

February 25, 2014

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against …

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My Year With Abraham Lincoln

January 4, 2014

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the …

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Lovers of the City: Newland Academy

December 18, 2013

In a series of recent posts (**see below), I’ve been fleshing out what it means to “love a city”. What …

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Schooling for the End of the World (where education and eschatology meet)

August 24, 2013

My previous post was actually a reposting of two separate posts (Embrace the End of the World and Educating for …

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RePost: The End of the World

August 21, 2013

**My next post, Schooling for the End of the World (where schooling and eschatology meet), will be a philosophical theology of …

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Speaking prophetically

August 15, 2013

In his seminal book on the subject, Abraham Heschel describes the prophet as one who is not as concerned with …

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There and Back Again

July 14, 2013

Since there are a good number of you who have just recently joined the conversation, I thought it might be …

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The Art of Making a Life

June 18, 2013

“We must be careful with our lives, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going …

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