iTeach and iLearn

I am feeling reflective as I write this. I was grateful to have been able to get my first shot for the COVID vaccine this past Thursday, one...

I've been playing my guitar a lot more regularly at home lately. I'm not 100% sure what that's about. Often I gravitate toward p...

I am grateful that I have colleagues who check in on me regularly. My dear friend and colleague in the office next door asked me this mornin...

A friend of mine recently posted a photo of me on Facebook. It's actually a photo of a page in the most recent issue of our University ...

It's that time of the semester in science methods...the time when we are wading back into talking about how to approach teaching (poten...

True confession: after finishing my doctorate in 2017, I had a hard time reading anything. (Not unrelated: I also had a hard time writing an...

One of the things that I love about teaching at Dordt is that we deliberately pause, right in the middle of our week, to spend time together...

It's been an exciting challenge for me to teach this Geography course for the first time this semester. My students have been fantastic,...

A (belated) merry Christmas to you! I hope it was a happy time of celebrating for you. I have not always loved the Christmas season. The...

My daughter, who is now a tween, has begun listening to the radio at her own volition. I knew this day would come. We listen to a lot of m...

I recently spent a week serving at Royal Family Kids Camp . I was one of 74 adults there working with 38 kids from the foster care system. I...

Did you have a good week at camp?? So many people asked me this question at church this morning. I found it difficult to answer. I s...

Today is, apparently, Soren Kierkegaard's 203rd birthday. (Relevant Magazine told me so .) Perhaps not as quotable as the inestimable C....

This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Q Ideas conference in Denver . "Q" is for "questions"...and the confe...

A few years ago, our small group participated in a church-wide study of Timothy Keller's book The Prodigal God . It was an eye-opening l...

Today was a hard, hard day for me personally, and for the life of our church body: today we celebrated the life of a little one from our con...

"...Hey, Jesus, are you a Democrat?" Our guest pastor in chapel today, the Reverend Doctor Paul Mpindi, quipped this line. I la...

Today is my 18th first day of school as a teacher. Add to that 4 years of college, and 13 years of K-12, and one of preschool, if you want t...

I spent last week serving at Royal Family Kids Camp, a camp expressly for kids in the foster care system. My last post shared a few of my in...

My wife and I celebrated our anniversary this past week. Eighteen years. Sometimes I look back and think, "We were just kids when we go...