(Re)Thinking God
The following guest post was contributed by Cornerstone teacher and professor of English, Dr. Debbie Williams. I’ve spent my life forced to rethink my perceptions of God. At 6 when I was mistakenly...
View ArticleCall to Unity
The following guest post was contributed by Cornerstone teacher and assistant professor of Information Systems, Dr. Orneita Burton. As I left the Spotlight session featuring John Perkins, a member of...
View ArticleWorldview, a poem
The following poem was contributed by Cornerstone teacher and assistant professor of English and Creative Writing, Dr. Shelly Sanders. . Worldview . Me: 33, female, white, married, believer, doubter....
View ArticleThe Solder and Foil of Life
The following guest post was contributed by Cornerstone teacher and assistant professor of Spanish and International Studies, Dr. Harland Rall. First of all, I don’t agree that Humpty Dumpty can never...
View ArticleThis I Believe – Student Essays
Over the last few years, I have taught English composition and literature classes to students from many different backgrounds. Perhaps the most challenging and energizing part of teaching is working...
View ArticleComplicit
I had an interesting conversation last week with my students in Cornerstone. In the Spotlight lecture on Monday, Dr. Rankin talked about recent revelations that Chinese workers at the Foxconn factory...
View ArticleEncouraging a Critical Suspicion
In our honors section this first week, we explored the ideas Dr. Beck presented in his lecture. We discussed obstacles to critical thinking or those things that make critical thinking difficult. I...
View ArticleThinking critically about advertising
Monday in Cornerstone Kristina Campos shared a Chrysler advertisement that we unpacked together. She discussed the 2011 Super Bowl commercial and the set of cultural assumptions and implications that...
View ArticleImplications of Fast Neutrinos
In her Spotlight presentation Monday, September 26, Dr. Sutherlin referenced a discovery made by scientists in Italy that neutrinos (sub atomic particles that are found throughout the universe) fired...
View ArticleWesleyan Quadrilateral Poll
During Randy Harris’ Spotlight presentation, we completed a short poll about the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. Prof. Harris asked us, “Which of the following areas if most authoritative when it comes to...
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