iLove It took nine days For my iPod to get here from China. Our love is like that, As inefficient as FedEx on a bad day, As absudist as a playlist with Blackeyed Peas and Gregorian Chants. Where is the Love? In the ear pod. On the hip. It's everywhere you want to be-- The… Continue reading Poetry assignment
Author: wally metts
Wally Metts is the daysman. He is a professor of English and communication at Spring Arbor University and co-pastors Falling Waters Bible Church. The father of four adult children, he and his wife Katie raise barn cats on 20 acres in Horton, Michigan. His grandchildren call him Santa.
An abomination
We ran a series of posters on campus to promote a lecture series I direct, and at least one person really hated them. That would be the person who tacked one of them on my office door, with these words scrawled in black magic marker: "This is an Abomonation For EVERYTHING This school stands for! You should be ashamed! [sic]"
Almost famous
I had an opinion piece published yesterday at the Wall Street Journal's Collegejournal.com. The title is Spring Fever Can Harm Seniors' Job Searches.
Passionate
This just in. Some people didn't like Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Take this review from the Hollywood Reporter: "People will see what they want to see in a movie shorn of any point of view not in literal accord with the gospels. True believers will bear witness to holy writ. Others—nonbelievers or even… Continue reading Passionate
The passion
What will the film mean or do to a young person who doesn't know the story, and is already desensitized to blood and violence through hundreds of hours of mediated blood and violence?
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