Category Archives: Teaching

The X-Files

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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Playing for Pets group

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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