Saint Hewett

I had a whole different post in mind yesterday after some really good conversations with students this week, but then this morning I had the privilege of rea...

Today's post comes to you in disjointed stories as I stitch together the lessons I'm learning and the lies I'm rooting out of my life. Please bear with me in...

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, I had a great idea for a blog post. Then I, by the grace of God, managed to fall asleep and stay asleep most of th...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After skyping an alumni w...

If you go through my archive, you'll find more than one reference to the Superchic[k] song "Alright." It showed up in one of my annual playlists as well (bec...

Years ago several of my students were struggling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. They found solace making a joke about suicide based on a vid...

Listening to this podcast is a better use of your time than my blog; come back here for commentary on this episode: https://bibleproject.com/podcast/taking-g...

Dr. Schaak used to always tell our literature classes at Multnomah, "The goal of literature is empathy." I told my students that in our last gathering all to...

My TA was getting some addresses for me this week and writing them on envelopes I hoped to have sent out months ago. Yesterday, I also spent a good amount of...

This past Thursday morning, I was chatting with someone about how she has a lot of questions about Job - and I admitted I have a lot of questions too. I've b...

I don't post absolutely everything on the internet, but the euphemistic pain I was describing in last week's post only got worse through this past week. I'm ...

Advent is a beautiful season to celebrate the God become Human, and we often times paint these tidy manger scenes that just nod to the humanity while highlig...

I can't remember if I mentioned publicly about my monthly commitment to read Isaiah this year. This month, I'm choosing one verse each chapter that stands ou...

This week had some low lows for me. I cried in front of two coworkers on separate occasions Thursday morning just before I taught my first lesson. If I hadn'...

As people asked me about how work and life are going this week, I usually answered honestly that there have been several highs and lows. I still absolutely l...

Nobody's perfect, but occasionally I've discovered I'm capable of teaching students useful things. My TA recently told me that she learns something from me e...

I'm a fan of Richard Rohr. He's got some great material out there, and one of his frequently visited concepts in writing and interviews is about the true sel...

Earlier this week a teacher friend of mine in America was telling me a student recently asked her, "Do you even know who TobyMac is?" And when she replied, "...

I love broccoli. I think it's delicious, and we should stop hating on all the tasty veggies out there. Vegetables can taste wonderful, but we condition chil...

Last year I wrote a post about how I was living in an apparent utopia, and I drew some comparisons to LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela...