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Clearing My Brain

Posted May 20, 2013 @ 10:28am | by Tripp

I am thinking about race, critical theory, preaching, and how some people make much hay out of their own racism to get attention. I am also thinking about how speaking from a place of social...

 

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Monasticism, Beloved Community, and The Common Good

Posted May 3, 2013 @ 11:44am | by Tripp

What would it mean if people of faith began transferring their human identities from class, racial, and national loyalties to a global identity in a new beloved community created by God? ~ Jim...

 

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Tags: Jim Wallis, On God's Side, blogging, Adam Ericksen, monasteries, common good, beloved community
 

Saying "Hello" Again

Posted April 28, 2013 @ 9:11pm | by Tripp

Last weekend at this time I was getting my bags packed. We had held a memorial service for my aunt, Ann Watlington, at Ginter Park Baptist Church earlier in the afternoon. I delivered the...

 

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Tags: Ann Watlington, grief, friendship, aunt, step-children
 

Can We Stop Teaching To A Single Ideal?

Posted April 7, 2013 @ 8:48am | by Tripp

Wait. Wait. Privilege and risk? Are you kidding me? In the academy? C an you tell me who you think should be getting a PhD and why? Is it as simple as completing a program or, like other...

 

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Tags: PhD, privilege, race, money, data, professors
 

Ph.D.s, Flexibility, and Valuation

Posted April 5, 2013 @ 12:00pm | by Tripp

Again, I like to eat. It's a polyvalent declaration of selfhood. H ave you seen this article about the daunting future for those seeking tenure track positions in the humanities? Take...

 

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Tags: Salon.com, PhD, getting a job
 

The Rob Bell Blogalogue Part 6

Posted April 2, 2013 @ 3:35pm | by Tripp

God For Us and The Scandal of Being Good (The Controversial figure Rob Bell has created another firestorm with his latest provocative book What We Talk About When We Talk About...

 

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Tags: Rob Bell, Adam Ericksen, Sojourners , God for Us and The Scandal of Being Good
 
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