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The past few years have been quite interesting in the realm of academia as the country has continued to struggle economically. As more and more questions have been asked about our economy, the bony finger of condemnation has been pointed yet again at higher education. In the minds of many, professors like myself are the…
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Living through crisis brings it’s own sense of survival instincts. Probably one of the most important is the grasp that optimism or a positive streak in the mind is helpful. While this is a struggle for myself (kind of a “glass half-empty” guy, or more realistically, my Gen-X cynicism leads me to simply trust few),…
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C. S. Lewis Blog: Adaptation vs. Transformation – Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Experiment. Since most of my readers know that I am something of a Tolkien Scholar (okay, “scholar” is probably too fancy of a word…but I have read much of the extra writings and I know much of the back story), I’ve been asked a…