Today, I presented a paper at SWU’s Faith Integration in the Academy Conference titled, “Faithful Thanksgiving: Gratitude Practices as Faith Integration.” It’s long and personal. Here it is. Good morning. We’re going to start with the practice that my workshop investigates. If this were my classroom, I would say something like, “It’s 9 am; pleaseContinue reading “Faithful Thanksgiving”
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What To Say
In his article “What To Say About a Poem,” William Wimsatt says there are four broad categories for what teachers and critics can say about a poem. First, you can explain everything from the meaning of a word to a knotty form of syntax. Second, you can describe the external features of the poem (e.g.,Continue reading “What To Say”
Experiments in Criticism 