Towards a theology of pets (part 1)

…the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink,…

Eulogy for my dog (2005-2020)

This morning my dog passed away. He was our second dog, and the last guardian of the house I grew in and where my parents currently live. My dad wrote the following eulogy in our native language, which I have…

Maintaining Classroom Discipline

An excerpt from McGraw-Hill’s Teacher Education Series: Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947): Classroom control and learning efficiency are products of good teaching. Learning must be made meaningful. Interest in work for which learners see a purpose provides its own discipline. But…

C. S. Lewis on non-Christians

C. S. Lewis describes the life of a saved Christian as a “Christ-life” or “new life”. In his book Mere Christianity, he briefly touches on the subject of those who have not been able to believe in Christ: Is it…

What teaching has taught me

Today I want to talk about the importance of being accessible to students. I teach engineering courses at a research university, humanities courses at a community college, and math at a middle school. I’m still relatively new to teaching (I…

Bible Study Websites

Over the past couple of years I’ve run across some interesting and useful websites that provide tools for Bible study. Here’s a list of some of them Bible Gateway Bible Gateway is my go-to site for looking up verses…