Insurrection 2021
Welcome to 2021. Just like 2020 only worse! Here’s the news headlines of the day.
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Teaching the End of the World in a Pandemic- 2020 Reflections
Congratulations, You Survived 2020! I write this as 2020 rapidly approaches its final hour here in Ohio. Oh boy, what a year it has been. It’s hard to even know where to begin,...
The End of the World 2020 Pandemic Megamix
(Scroll down for the embedded mp3 remix!) As some of you know, I’ve been teaching a religious studies course this past year at CSU, Chico called The End of the World. As you...
Pandemic Pedagogies – Learning from the Black Death and 1918 Influenza Pandemics
By a chance of fate, I found myself teaching a Religious Studies course on the End of the World this spring at CSU Chico, just in time to watch the world slide...
Thoughts #43
Another year has come and gone, and I find myself reflecting on how the next chapter of my story will unfold? It seems like just yesterday I was still so young. When I look in the mirror now what I see are weary eyes and long shimmering greyish hair stares back at me. That youthful gaze has gone the way of the last golden rays of sunlight, sinking far into the horizon.
Northern Snows, Southern Fires
Here in northern Ohio we had the first short snowfall recently, leaving a thin blanket of snow on the ground and between the tree branches. I associate a certain sense of calm with...
