$10 Gets You 15 Songs (and Us This House)

Six weeks ago, I posted an entry hinting that we were trying to buy a house here in St. Louis. The good news is, we’re no longer trying; we’ve bought a house, and it’s pictured above.
Neat story: after our offers for the initial house got shot down (twice) by the bank, we decided to let [...]

Happy Campers

As a close to my ramblings about Summer Seminar, here’s our group just after kayaking and one day away from heading home (yes, those are genuine smiles on all our faces).
The students’ pictures are starting to come in (thanks, Monica and Michael), so I’ve gone through my two summary posts and added shots to illustrate [...]

Who Owns the West?

Thought this map (hat tip: Acton Institute) was interesting. I’m surprised both by how little land the government owns in South Dakota (just the best parts), as well as how much land the government owns in the West in general.
Also interesting is the small amount of government land in the Midwest and East compared to [...]

Summer Seminar: A Summary (part 2)

After another 50 miles of biking on the Mickelson Trail (broken up over two days), the novelty of the South Dakota experience began to wear thin. At times, it was downright burdensome, as I was dealing with 28 high school seniors who I so desperately wanted to see “get it” with regard to the academic [...]

Summer Seminar: A Summary (part 1)

It’s high time I got back on the saddle here with a summary of sorts of my recent journey to South Dakota. It was a good trip, but I’m glad to be home in St. Louis, as I missed Megan and the girls something terrible. Though I didn’t take a camera, I’ll have plenty of [...]

Fulfilling a Four-Year Wish

Sorry to disappoint. This isn’t Craig, it’s Megan. Be prepared for constant misuse of the comma, as there’s nothing Craig can do about it (at least not for another five days – rest assured, he will come here and fix this up next Sunday).
When we entered this whole weird world of blogging some four or [...]

Summer Seminar

Beginning Monday, I’m out of town for the next two weeks as one of seven staff taking 28 soon-to-be-seniors on Westminster’s Summer Seminar to South Dakota. Though I hate being away from Megan and the girls that long, I’m looking forward to the trip. Here’s the official write-up:
“The Summer Seminar in Liberal Arts is an [...]

The Brutality of Love

Getting back to our final installment of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Interpretation, what do we do with the perception in the minds of most modern people that “the Bible is a deeply ugly book”? With regard to passages like Leviticus 19:18b and Deuteronomy 13:7-11, what were Moses’ purposes and the needs of the nation (not the state) of Israel [...]

Top Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Last Year

Here’s a list I prepared and presented yesterday at Westminster’s new teacher induction:
10. Don’t let the physical exhaustion you experience during the first week of school scare you. Though it’s tiring, give your body a chance to catch up from summer (it’ll take a good week).
9. Just because a student smiles at you doesn’t mean [...]

Women and Head Coverings

Before we try to apply a right hermeneutic to one of the passages in question, let’s apply its principles of authorial intent and audience need to the Bible as a whole. Allowing the literature to provide its answer of authorship, we understand the Scripture was written by God. Granted, there are huge questions that go [...]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Interpretation

A few weeks ago, a post in which I wrote on gay marriage got quite a bit of traffic and discussion. In the midst of the interactions, some important questions came up pertaining to my use of the Bible as the basis for my thinking.
For instance, escapethedrain wrote in comment #2:
“If you are using the bible [...]

Here’s the Story…

The girls have been bingeing of late on DVD episodes of The Brady Bunch. I’ve decided I would be a better parent if all my decisions were accompanied by cheeseball music and a laugh track.
Curse you, Mike Brady…and a pox upon your architect’s desk.