Tag: community

Love the Sinner: Revision

I decided to “revise from scratch” the essay I wrote a long time ago about my experience “meeting” Fred Phelps. Everything about my feelings towards the Westboro Baptist Church is complicated. They are my biggest weakness, where the blackest hole in my heart lies. I wanted to take the original piece and make it a…

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A Doubter, a Believer, and a Person of Faith: Community Reflection

Sometimes these essays are really hard. Sometimes they come spilling out of me as though they’ve been inside of me, waiting for the chance to escape. Today was one of the easy days. Thanks to all my friends at Trinity. A Doubter, a Believer, and a Person of Faith             I breathe in deeply and…

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In Medias Res: Don’t Start with Background Information

I had an “Ah-ha!” moment about this when I was working on the rough draft of my Community Reflection, which my students and I started last Friday. I decided I wanted to write about how coming home after my Dad’s surgery and then spending the week with him in the hospital gave me a new…

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Christmas Eve: or Yes, I AM Continuing My Experiment

I don’t have a class with ISU this semester, but I decided that I’m going to continue making assignments for myself that I will share on this blog. My plan is to give myself weekly writing prompts that I could use with future classes. By the end of the spring, I’ll have a bunch of…

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No Room For Hate: Values Reflection

This is the first assignment I ever wrote with my class. It was the fall of 2014. At the time I was trying out a very spontaneous teaching style, where I would wait to do the reading until right before class that way I could be really fresh and in the moment during discussion. For…

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