The Vicious “virtues”
Greed, gluttony, lust, envy, [and] pride are no more than sad efforts to fill the empty place where love belongs, …
Category Archives: Education
Odyssey Leadership Academy
As followers of this blog know, I have long been in pursuit of a better story for education. As my …
Teaching for Plowshares
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against …
My Year With Abraham Lincoln
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the …
Lovers of the City: Newland Academy
In a series of recent posts (**see below), I’ve been fleshing out what it means to “love a city”. What …
Schooling for the End of the World (where education and eschatology meet)
My previous post was actually a reposting of two separate posts (Embrace the End of the World and Educating for …
RePost: The End of the World
**My next post, Schooling for the End of the World (where schooling and eschatology meet), will be a philosophical theology of …
Speaking prophetically
In his seminal book on the subject, Abraham Heschel describes the prophet as one who is not as concerned with …
There and Back Again
Since there are a good number of you who have just recently joined the conversation, I thought it might be …
The Art of Making a Life
“We must be careful with our lives, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going …
The Wisdom Initiative 