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Fulbright Orientation Week 2-2.5: It’s a bit of a blur, really.

29 Jul 20152 Aug 2015

"Orientation, I remember that," an undisclosed renewing Fulbright grantee said to me, wistfully, as remembering childhood in a sort of Richard-Dreyfuss-narrating- Stephen-King's-Stand-by-Me-tone:. The tone indicated a mix of horror and…

Fulbright Orientation Week 1: Yohan learns kimchi is a fact of life, but he does not like it. (He likes everything else swell though).

18 Jul 201518 Jul 2015

Blog post on Monday, July 13th- Saturday, July 17th, 2015. After a long time of travel, all the ETAs (English teaching assistants) arrived at the Incheon airport outside of Seoul, filled out paper…

The sun has set in the west. The sun also rises in the east.

10 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

The sun has set the last time for me over the skies of Ohio and Kentucky. Last night, celebrating at Connor and Georgia's wedding, I looked over the treeline at…

Why Southern Gothic Rules the World -MO Walsh

Second, the basket. The basket on this bike is full of vivid characters. Scholars are quick to call them “grotesques”, as they are often deformed or bigoted or violent but,…

Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman

17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015

Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…

Teaching people to be congregational: renarrating voting -Stephen Holmes

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we do church meeting badly… (‘we’ = ‘most British Baptists of whom I am aware’.) A part of the problem is,…

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…

3 Things to Know About the Abercrombie Ruling- Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty- BJC

2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said: Abercrombie’s argument that a neutral policy cannot constitute “intentional discrimination” may make sense in other contexts. But Title VII does not demand mere…

My alma mater featured my Fulbright grant award!

1 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

The feature includes all three Fulbright grant award recipients from Georgetown College: Collin Smith, Victoria Engelhardt, and me. All three of us are relatively recent alumni of the college. I…

Christ the rock: a sermon

25 Oct 201425 Oct 2014

I preached this sermon at the Nashville Regional Festival of Young Preachers at Belmont University On Friday October 24, 2014. Please look for the forthcoming video from the Academy of…