Archive: Miscellany

Celebrating 50 Years of Grace Evangelical Covenant Church

Monday, January 30, 2012

Photography Highlights of 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

How to Break Things Really Good — Extra Resources

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Here are online resources related to my October 25, 2011, presentation at the HighEdWeb 2011 conference in Austin. (more…)

Three great questions to ponder

Saturday, February 12, 2011

After you read Mark 2:1-12, think about these questions:

With regard to the paralytic’s friends:

Which people do you know who need to be brought to Jesus?

With regard to the paralytic himself:

What areas of your life need Jesus’ healing?

With regard to the crowd:

In what ways do you hope to witness or observe Jesus’ power?

Written by Ann Boyd, January 2011, for microchurch

The real world

Friday, January 28, 2011

The real world and its fate have gone unrecognized on the academic curriculum.

— Alistair McIntyre, quoted by Eric Miller

How to open Apple’s iWork Pages documents without Pages

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Because file-conversion is always exciting, and because I found this obscure little tip buried way down in a forum thread — but it’s golden — I figured it needs to be published more plainly: (more…)

The Loss of Brown’s Woods: A Letter to Scott Russell Sanders

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Review of A Conservationist Manifesto, by Scott Russell Sanders (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

A version of this review first appeared in print in The Common Review 8, no. 3 (Winter 2010): 42-44. (TCR unfortunately does not make its content available online).

See below for a letter to the editor taking issue with this review, and my response. (more…)

Nineteenth-century literary props

Friday, April 16, 2010

That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. (more…)

Eustace Tilley

Monday, March 29, 2010

It’s been reported that the New Yorker magazine’s mascot, the character “Eustace Tilley,” is based on an illustration from the Encyclopædia Britannicas famous eleventh edition. But it hasn’t been easy to find a online view of that original illustration. Until now. (more…)

Social Media Mistakes You Can Avoid

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I recently led a seminar on the subject of “Mistakes You Can Avoid on Facebook and Twitter” for people in the nonprofit and ministry sector. I wish you all could have been there — but we’ll have to settle for sharing my one-page handout. (more…)