Susannah York as Margaret More in A Man For All Seasons In the 1966 film version of Robert Bolt's play A Man For All Seasons , King He...

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), portrait by Michael Dahl c. 1727 Despite my regular use in the classroom of a smart board, the Internet, and oth...

  I do not know whether the sound of humans screaming at each other is the same as that of doves crying.  In 1984, the musician known as Pri...

I blogged very little in 2024 in part because I was working on the publication of my latest book,  The Golden Waffle Principle:  Finding Mea...

  Pygmalion  by  Jean-Baptiste Regnault , 1786, Musée National du Château et des Trianons The First AI Dating Service? The Roman poet Ovid (...

  What do a Diet Coke and a stack of student work to be graded have to do with each other?  They both represent the unbridled thrill of maki...

There is a reason I have not been blogging much lately.  In fact, my previous post  came out exactly seven months ago, so it is time for me ...

  What is the role of design in the modern world?  Does it only apply to decorating your bedroom, or could it be about something more?  Indu...

 "Ask not for whom the bell tolls," advised John Donne , quickly adding, "it tolls for thee."  Yet we may well ask for w...

Many people talk about biblical illiteracy today, but what about God illiteracy, our misreading of God Himself?  How do we fall into the tra...