Category Archives: Christianity

I’m Being Retentive About Retention

The spokesman at my alma mater gives a figure that doesn’t match my experience: Pait acknowledges that students sometimes feel as though the school’s policies “cramp their style.” However, the university maintains an extremely strong retention rate; sometimes as high as 95 percent. I think my freshman class had about 1500-2000 members, and I remember […]

Limited Amusement

A little humor via my friend Greg. Or, “I feel like we were destined for each other.”

Choraling Rutter

Kudos to Dan Forrest. I didn’t really know him that well, but we were in at least one music theory class together in college. Apparently he needed the class less than I, because he just beat out John Rutter for first prize in the John Ness Beck award for outstanding selected sacred choral anthem. No […]

Bruised Heel, Not Crushed Hope

For some variety, for the last couple of weeks I’ve changed my running route. Instead of following part of the Emerald Necklace, I’ve been riding the D line out of the city and running back in. Today after disembarking from the train and starting to warm up, I realized that my heel was still chafing […]