Serene Musings

Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, I never heard of Jimmy Buffett.  But when my family moved in 1988 to Cincinnati, a city that has lon...

Despite having fairly broad musical tastes, my first true love has always been hard rock.  The first album I owned was Van Halen's 1984 ...

Part I: First Semester Part II: The Blizzard of January 1994 Part III: Joining the President's House Association Following my invi...

Part I: First Semester Part II: The Blizzard of January 1994 After having classes canceled for a week, and being snowed-in without elect...

Christian literacy means not simply the ability to recognize biblical and Christian words, but also to understand them. Marcus Borg i...

Read about first semester here. My girlfriend and I got back to Georgetown over the weekend of January 15th.  A wicked cold front had move...

In August of 1993, my parents moved from Cincinnati to Houston, and I arrived at the doorstep of Anderson Hall at Georgetown College in rura...

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah! The phrase above is written in Lapine - a fictional rabbit language in the book Watership Down , by Rich...

Zealot  is the latest in a very long line of books by various religious scholars on the life of the historical Jesus.  Because it receiv...

2013 proved to be a banner year for me and my books.  After having had several years in a row of relatively low outputs (20 books read in 20...

This is the last line from last year's Year in Review: My plans for 2013 include losing weight, quitting smoking permanently (I'v...