The musings of a 40-something religious academic
No, I haven’t died, nor have I abandoned this blog.
It’s just that I’ve been snowed under of late: I’ve been trying to keep up with the start of the new semester, in addition to getting my dossier together for fourth-year review and working on a few new projects.
One of those new projects is a group blog that I now serve as a regular writer for. ProfHacker provides reflections and how-to’s on higher education, pedagogy, and technology; it’s worth checking out!
Tags: Academia, Announcements, Blogging
Rod Dreher has a good reflection here on the “politics of rage.”
Neither the tendency to attribute bad motives to one’s opponents, nor the insistence on using inflammatory language to express one’s own point of view, is likely to accomplish much (other, perhaps, than letting us vent).
Tags: Cross-post, Dialogue
I’ve decided to begin maintaining two blogs: one personal, one professional. The professional blog can be found at amycavender.org.
Tags: Announcecments
This little lady is nesting in the pine tree outside our front door. To judge by the look in her eye, she’s not too sure about me (and yes, I had to set my camera’s zoom as high as it would go in order to get this photo).
Tags: Flora and fauna, Photography
I’ve deliberately avoided commenting on this issue, because it’s so volatile, and I know good people on both sides of the debate.
The only comment I’ll weigh in with is that the tone of much of the public discourse on the issue leaves a great deal to be desired, and we’d all do well to consider what Ryan Duns, SJ has to say here.
This is the new home of this blog. As you can see, there’s a lot of construction work to do around here; please be patient.
I had planned to migrate all the content from the previous blog to this site, but it turned out to be a major hassle. If you’re looking for older content, the old site is still up and running, but at a different address: acavender.wordpress.com.