Angelina

I pulled out one of my all-time favorite CiRCE talks this week, “Communications Technologies as Engines of Unrest” by Ken Myers (which you can purchase here). Listening to this lecture back in 2007 changed my life as I discovered the source of the restlessness I had been struggling with. The questions Myers raises are even […]

A few years ago I worked as a tutor helping inner-city children pass the LEAP, a standardized test that all Louisiana public school students in 4th and 8th grades must pass. It’s an exit exam, ensuring that all students have a mastery of the basics of math and English. It sounds so good in theory.

I’ve been reading Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. As I read more about this remarkable group of men and women who desired to follow their convictions and who attempted, despite overwhelming difficulties and seeming impossibilities, to build true Christian community and to advance the kingdom of Christ, I was struck by how much their

In his novel Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry notes that, for moderns, education means leaving. Moving up has become synonymous with moving on – and moving away. At this year’s CiRCE Conference, Ken Myers in his talk “On Cultural Authority” echoed Berry’s thoughts when he lamented that people today think, Where can I go to use

The relationship between Feminism and the church – and the current debate surrounding Feminism – cannot be understood without first closely examining the historical roots of Feminism. As with any idea, we must first figure out how we got where we are before we can determine how to proceed. We cannot understand anything about Feminism