Asbury News Covers the New Edition of the Textbook
Paul Nesselroade January 14, 2025
I’m thankful to Jeremy Simmons and the folks in Asbury University’s Strategic Communications Department for releasing a little story on the textbook. See here.
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The New Edition of the Text is Out!
Paul Nesselroade December 30, 2024
This past year I haven’t been as active on this website as I would have hoped to have been. In my defense, I was finishing up the 3rd edition of my statistics textbook, “Essentials of Behavioral and Social Science Statistics.” It’s about 350 pages (and 2 chapters) thinner than the previous edition. Instead of throwing in everything including the kitchen sink (like I did with the previous edition), I went the other way – including just the essentials this time; the essentials, albeit, still associated with a rigorous and substantial trip through the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics. I
This is Asbury – Russ Ramsey
Paul Nesselroade November 18, 2024
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with author and pastor, Russ Ramsey. Russ leads the congregation at Christ Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee. He has also written several books – the most recent two were designed to articulate an appreciation for the great works of art from a Christian perspective and with a pastor’s heart. In 2022, he published, Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith, and in October of 2024 his most recent offering was published, Van Gogh has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and
A Book Review: TheoPsych
Paul Nesselroade August 29, 2024
About a year ago I was asked to submit a book review to a journal entitled, “Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.” It covers a manuscript written by a well-known Christian academic psychologist (Dr. Justin Barrett) which is designed to serve as a primer on what academic psychology has to offer the theologian and the theoretically-inclined pastor. Below is my critique of Barrett’s work: TheoPsych: A Psychological Primer for Theologians by Justin L. Barrett. Blueprint 1543, 2022. 176 pages. Paperback; $19.15. Also, free download at: https://blueprint1543.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TheoPsych-PDF.pdf ISBN: 979-8985852004 It is not often that one finds a book about construction written
Christian Marx and the Brandenburg Euthanasia Memorial
Paul Nesselroade August 14, 2024
Last winter I had the privilege of hosting historian and educator Christian Marx at Asbury University. He had come all the way from Berlin, Germany for an Asbury University Honors Program talk about the work he does at the Brandenburg Euthanasia Memorial, just a one-hour train ride away from the capital city. In addition to the campus-wide talk he delivered, I had the privilege of sitting down with him for an episode of “This is Asbury.” Here is a link to that 19 minute conversation. Christian Marx and my Asbury Psychology Department colleagues
Dr. Felicia Wu Song, Restless Devices
Paul Nesselroade June 26, 2024
Last winter I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Felicia Wu Song about her latest book, “Restless Devices.” Here’s the link to the 25 minute interview.
Living and Learning Together, Rediscovering a Lost Aspect of Education
Paul Nesselroade May 28, 2024
Below is a summary of this year’s Holocaust Studies Tour, 2024 The tour this year was, as each one promises to be, a sundry blend of the predictable and repeatable commingled with the new, the unanticipated, and the potently particular. This is the complex base-fabric out of which study abroad experiences are cut. With regard to the new and particular, I was so pleased this time around to be able to meet Dr. Daniel Rottke and Historian Fabian Schwanzar at a place called Alt Rehse, a retreat and resort built by the National Socialists on the western banks of the
Holocaust Studies Tour, 2024, Day 13
Paul Nesselroade May 19, 2024
Last Day in Kraków Short and sweet update for today. Most students decided to go to the world-famous (UNESCO World Heritage Site, first list) Wieliczka Salt Mine. However, St. Mary’s church was also visited, as was the Polish Home Army Museum. In the afternoon we had a great wrap-up team-discussion about the tour. We also had a final meal together. Some pictures are below. Tomorrow morning the students fly home. This was such a great group…so blessed!
Holocaust Studies Tour, 2024, Day 12
Paul Nesselroade May 18, 2024
Auschwitz I and Auschwitz Birkenau We spent today in Oświęcim, Poland. The Germans, when they came in the Fall of 1939, renamed it Auschwitz. How does one prepare for such a visit? How could my students have possibly been given “informed consent” for what they will experience this day? A few years ago I started to write down some thoughts for them to consider as we approached the camp – the most current version I’ll share below. Pictures from the day will follow. A few words as we approach Auschwitz today. Please prayerfully consider these thoughts. There is so much
Holocaust Studies Tour, 2024, Day 11
Paul Nesselroade May 17, 2024
Schindler’s Factory Museum and Free Kraków On our first full day in Kraków, we started off walking from Old Town to the Schindler Factory Museum. On the way we stopped by a 14th century basilica (Corpus Christi), the Ghetto Plaza Memorial, and a small stretch of the ghetto wall. In the afternoon and evening students explored widely what Old Town Kraków has to offer. Some pictures are below feature a Wawel Castle tour, some cultural performances in the Old Town Square, and a classical music concert at the Peter and Paul Cathedral. Tomorrow is Auschwitz I and II (Birkenau). We