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Research Goals
I am currently working on a book entitled Finding God In The Secular Media: From the Twilight Zone to the X-Files. Its topic is an expansion of presentations I gave at the 2004 and 2006 joint national conference of the American Culture Association and Popular Culture Association. My main thesis is that two paradigms exist for developing Christian…
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Teaching Philosophy
As a teacher, my goal is to expand the minds of my students by challenging their ways of thinking. Anyone can stand in a room and read from a book, and many can offer a well-prepared lecture, but great teachers are ones who demand more than memorization of the material. Great teachers challenge students, through the material,…
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Race, Croal, Conrad and Resident Evil
A funny thing happened to Resident Evil 5 on its way to release: it became the center of a growing debate about race in video games.