Month: November 2013

  • A Lincoln Laureate

    ByDavid Perry

    My post is late today because I rose at 6 to drive to Springfield and see a student of mine, David Gayes, be named a “Lincoln Student Laureate.” The student in question, in my class, wrote brilliantly about theology and disability. His essay became a presentation at our research expo, then won our top essay…

  • Ender’s Games

    ByDavid Perry

    The movie Ender’s Game is coming out tomorrow. I won’t be going to see it tomorrow or, I think, at any time. Perhaps on cable or netflix someday. I wrote a piece on it this summer, linking Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay rhetoric to the terrible things happening right now in Russia. Rhetoric is not empty….