Several of these blog entries are reflections of various aspects of the holocaust-studies tour. These essays are designed to provide the reader with specific information about various memorials and locations as well as a personal reflection of meaning associated with a location or feature of a memorial. Some blog entries will not be animated by the holocaust-studies tour.
Additionally, I recently completed a writing project overhauling a behavior and social sciences statistics textbook. Some selected sidebar essays that may be of interest to a more general audience have been extracted and placed in this section of the website.
Asbury News Covers the New Edition of the Textbook
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.
The New Edition of the Text is Out!
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
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
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
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
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.