Father. Husband. Methodist. Professor. DSU Honors. PA Announcer for Delta State. UVA & Ole Miss alum. Foodie. CCHS Wolves PXP. Chipper. In no particular order.
Mississippi College is now Mississippi Christian University with the name change going into effect June 1 to "better reflect the school's Christian mission, academic scope, and long-term vision."
@davidzedelstein Where is this wondrous island? American Starkmoa (not to be confused with Starkmoa)? Starkhiti? Stark-tigua? Stark-muda? Stark-bados? Stark-maica? The Starkhamas? The Greater Starktilles? Trinidad & Starkbago? Oh, wait. Can’t do that last one 😂.
@PrestonWillett We still have to win 3 more games with the same crew & regional management. The coach was ejected. The next day, 2 players were ejected. It may not be fair or warranted, but Coach Pollard understands he has to toe the line, & I hope for their sakes, every player does so as well.
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
65 years ago yesterday my dad was part of a group of heroes arrested in Jackson, MS while participating in the Freedom Rides. This is what it takes. This is what it’s always taken.
He was 20 years old.