Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships
I was introduced to the Enneagram about two years ago. It was during our January teacher workday, and a parent of a couple of my students taught a seminar on it (shoutout to Gina Butz!). I introduced Ali to it, and we began a journey of self discovery. Like other personality tests, we tend to…
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Let’s Get Some Books on Your Christmas List
Once upon a time, I reviewed books like it was going out of style (as in, 72 in one year). It has since actually gone out of style, but I’ve had a nice break and am resurrecting an old habit. In years past, I’ve done a kind of “books you should add to your Christmas…
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When Fundamentalism Takes a Left Turn
I actually forgot why I thought I should read The Once and Future Liberal. But, when I was sorting mail after we got back from vacation, the volume seemed slim enough that I could probably read it on a Sunday afternoon before the 4 o’clock NFL games even kicked off. So I did. Mark Lilla writes…
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Introducing Top Five Friday
I’ve been thinking about returning to regular lists of Top 10’s. It was a staple of my MySpace blogging days (RIP). However, I wasn’t shooting for any regularity, and merely posted whenever the mood struck. Now, I’d like to post every Friday. In doing this, I am self-consciously riffing on Tim Ferriss’ Five Bullet Friday,…
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Our School Was Featured on Local Fox News!
On Tuesday, the local Fox News station was at our school for a story about the hybrid model ICS uses. We knew they would be interviewing our head administrator and filming in one of the 6th grade classrooms. But, the also interviewed that teacher’s daughter who is in one of my 11th Grade Bible classes.…
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The Spirituality of Wine
I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve read about wine. Actually, I don’t even need fingers because it’s only this one. This is in part because I’m not a big fan of wine. But, it’s also because there aren’t exactly a whole shelf of books out on there on wine and…
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Giving Tuesday: SHIFT @ UCF
I wish this was a picture of our on-campus student organization. This gathering in the student union at UCF was a vigil I attended for the victims of the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. I didn’t know this until the tragedy, but Central Florida Hillel (which serves not just UCF, but other nearby…
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Leaving Evangelicalism or Leaving Fundamentalism?
The past few Monday’s I’ve been working through some of the issues related to interpreting Genesis well (here and here, if you’d like to go back and read). Over the weekend, we had a back porch discussion that led to an epiphany for explaining it even better, but that’ll have to wait until next week.…
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On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books
I’ve been writing a bit lately on reading well. I’m mostly focused on reading Genesis well, but I did finish an unrelated (sort of) book about reading well in general. On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books is Karen Swallow Prior’s latest release and was my book of the week last week.…
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The Genetic Fallacy and Reading Genesis
Ever since I graduated from seminary, I’ve had to deal with the issue of credentials. This has come up in the church and in the classroom. When I first started teaching Bible, I had students who thought because they grew up in church, they pretty much had the Bible figured out. As I would challenge…
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