Archives for September 2025

About a year ago I was teaching a Greek class where we were translating Paul’s short letter to Philemon. I mentioned the idea that States could use the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in order to curtail the rights of women to travel across state lines to secure an abortion. ...

Below is the jargon which has pervaded our conversation. I call this the “re-” lexicon: re-design re-invent re-arrange re-imagine re-create re-think re-conceive re-examine re-vision re-consider re-work re-cover The call to “re-” the system of education has been in response to shrinking student pools, dwindling tenure-track positions, collapsing denominational structures, tightening ...