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.
Day 2 – 2025 Holocaust Studies Tour
Walking, Learning, Processing, and then more Walking! Today I need to be short and sweet. Up at 6:30 for an airport run (all students are here now!!!) and then well over 20k steps were taken to accomplish our walking tour of downtown Berlin. I’m crashing fast. Here are the events and locations followed by a set of pics – most from the student’s eye. We peeked inside St. Mary’s church, then stopped by the Rosenstrasse Protest Memorial, then we paced through Museum Island, by the German History Museum and Humboldt University on our way to Bebelplatz. Then, through Gendarmenmarkt on
Day 1 – 2025 Holocaust Studies Tour
Arrivals and Delays Tuesday is our first day in Berlin. Unfortunately, three of our team members will not be able to join us until tomorrow morning – the perils of international travel. A modest agenda for the first day involved exploring Alexanderplatz as well as a few places of interest that sit along the main east/west rail spine that bisects this capital city – namely, the East Side Gallery, Hackescher Markt, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. We are excited to be joined by the remaining group members within hours. By midday tomorrow we should be all together as we
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