Nov 10, 2010
Mark Geil, Kinesiology and Health, Georgia State University [Nov 14, 2010] — I attended a conference not related to work this past summer. No abstracts or vendor booths or poster presentations. Biomechanics, my discipline, was not mentioned once. No, this was...
Aug 31, 2010
John Walkup Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering Texas Tech University Faculty Commons Staff [Sept. 5, 2010] — “Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the Lord means safety.” Proverbs 29:25 (NLT). Looking back on my years in the academy, I...
Mar 22, 2010
Phil Bishop, Exercise Physiology, University of Alabama “So what’s my story?” That question came to mind when I was reading Donald Miller’s book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Nelson). I really liked the book, chiefly because its message is practical for us as...
Mar 21, 2010
Samuel E Matteson Physics, University of North Texas [March 28, 2010]— Jesus pronounced some commandments that sometimes I wish He had not. Like doing good to those who want to harm you – loving your enemies. “That’s just not natural,” I say to myself. God seems...
Feb 15, 2010
Lester W. Knotts, English, United States Military Academy [ Feb 15, 2009 ] — A few years ago, I was leading a discussion in a first-year literature survey course. We were reading a poem that alluded directly to New Testament scripture concerning the Holy Spirit....
Dec 9, 2009
Robert Kaita, Plasma Physics Princeton [Dec 13, 2009] — There is a tradition among many of us in the teaching profession to compile our academic “genealogies.” My wife is a music teacher, for example, and many of her colleagues like to claim their pedagogical...
