Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
Two posts ago, I talked about one big change I made to my Introduction to the New Testament class last summer, choosing to take the students through the Synoptic Gospels before teaching the Synoptic Problem itself. That change seemed immensely helpful, as it took an important (but typically uninteresting to the students) subject and forced [...] Read more »
I had the opportunity to teach a five-week course of “Introduction to New Testament Literature” at UNC-Chapel Hill this summer, and I took the opportunity to reexamine and revamp a few aspects of how I’ve taught that course (or have seen others teach it) in the past. In addition to a lot of fine-tuning and [...] Read more »
Slate has a nice piece up on why it’s totally, completely wrong to double-space after a period. I get this all the time in documents I edit—I usually just do a quick find/replace to eliminate all double-spaces from the document at the very start. I remain continually surprised at how many (even those who learned [...] Read more »
James McGrath has brought up the question of whether participation grades are worthwhile or should be eliminated: I’ve tried to use participation grades and I’m thinking the time has come to ditch them and simply leave it up to the student to learn as they learn best. Students are different, and learn differently. I conditionally [...] Read more »
My Journal of Religion and Film review of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” is now available. There was a lot I had to leave out due to space constraints, but overall I’m pleased with the outcome, minus the grammatical error the editor managed to introduce into my article. (My version had said, “as C. S. Lewis . [...] Read more »