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Adolescents, parenting, and music

April 23, 2012

Today I want to share a couple of interviews. The first is with Leon Kass, on how new technologies have changed the assumptions many people have about their children. The second is with Julian Johnson on music and the expectations of immediate gratification and the third is with Murray Milner, Jr., on how the choices [...]

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Williams on Christian Conversion and Herrick on gnosticism and Luke Skywalker

April 12, 2012

Today I want to share a couple of interviews. The first is with D. H. Williams, on the excluding character of Christian conversion and the second is with James A. Herrick on Mormonism, gnosticism, and the significance of Luke Skywalker. Williams is a Professor of Religion in Patristics and Historical Theology. He has written a [...]

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Call me a nomad

April 12, 2012

I’ve spent many many many hours of my life sitting in airport lounges. I’ve even had to sleep in one or two. I’ve been delayed because of tornadoes, cyclones, dust-storms, the American president (one memorable afternoon in Detroit when President Obama made an ‘unscheduled’  – not that I thought that was possible – visit to [...]

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The Function of Biblical and Ecclesiastical Vocabularies in E.Nesbit’s Poetry

April 12, 2012

I’m at the Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference in Brisbane for the next couple of days.I’m delivering a paper about Nesbit’s use of biblical imagery and ecclesiastical vocabularies. There are lots of great papers slated for AVSA, so if the Victorian era is your deal, take a look at the full schedule and abstracts. I’m [...]

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I need better article and blog post titles

April 5, 2012

Let’s face it, when it comes to post and article titles, I think like an academic. Like the other day where I was talking about how the words I used for things have changed over the last five years and three continents. But no, I had to title it “Living in between and the Linguistic [...]

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Project 333 update: moving, travelling, and southern hemisphere edition

March 29, 2012

Shipping most of my belongings from Scotland to Australia gave me the perfect opportunity [read also: necessitated] to review where project 333 was up to. If you don’t know what I’m gibbering on about – re: Project 333 or you’d like to follow my journey so far, here’s part 1 and part 2 and part [...]

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The quest for inbox zero and the weight of the PhD

March 28, 2012

I’ve spent hours this week getting caught up on long put off administration, on answering or dealing with the work that results from over 600 emails sitting forlornly in my inbox. Some of it I needed to say “No” – to say with the delete key or a longer email responding that it wasn’t for [...]

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I write because I must.

March 12, 2012

I like writing. I have days and weeks where I have to tear myself away from my moleskine or my laptop to eat. Sometimes it draws me back in whether I want it to or not. Like a siren with its calls. I write because I have to. I write because I must. Some days, [...]

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Beyond the finish line

March 7, 2012

I’ve always been one of those people who looks ahead, beyond the finish line. Sometimes it means I get ahead of myself. Sometimes I struggle to live in the moment and enjoying being here. there. just being. Sometimes I wonder whether we get afraid of finishing something or meeting a goal because we aren’t sure [...]

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When the PhD takes over your life

March 1, 2012

This is a post about following my own advice, or rather how I haven’t been lately! Between the light lifting, the sun is rising its weary head a little earlier. Sleep is finding its own pattern once again. Things have felt a little brighter. I haven’t really been following my own advice very well lately. [...]

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