My inventive colleague, Dr. Isaac Soon, recently offered a constructive counterpart to all the handwringing in academia about ChatGPT....

It has been a very hard year for students everywhere, it seems, and in ways peculiar to each person. As I grade final papers, I am...

At this time of year, students are receiving back papers from professors with various forms of the same advice: “Please get help for your...

My friend Tom Morris recently reminisced on Facebook about teachers who had blessed him in special ways over his life. His poignant...

The Coalition Avenir Québec continues its remarkable record of concentrating power in the provincial government on behalf of its pure...

I’ve only just heard that my latter-day mentor in the sociology of religion, David Martin, passed away last month. I confess that I...

The word out of Alberta about Gay-Straight Alliance clubs (GSAs) hasn’t been good of late. According to the Calgary Herald, the Alberta...

Farmers work harder during harvest than at any other time. But they also work happier, because they see every day the literal fruit of...

It seems like a headline from The Onion, the American satirical website that daily tests our credulity, but it’s real: “U.K. student...

“But, Professor, I learned in church that God wrote the Ten Commandments himself on stone tablets and gave them to Moses. Isn’t that what...

It’s back-to-school time and, for many Canadian pupils, it’s back to the demands of school dress codes. Not just in private schools, but...

No political issue in Canadian history has been more important, contentious, and complex than schooling, and particularly the question of...

Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...

The recent shooting in a Quebec City mosque has prompted shocked Canadians to wonder whether we will see more religiously motivated...

I promised to represent people who responded to a previous post about seminary education, and I’m glad to do so. As one might have...

[The following is my address to the academic chapel of Crandall University this past September.] “The lyf so short, the craft so long to...

Canadian society faced another challenge this past month as a school district in suburban Toronto wrestled with the accommodation of...

Students often complain about professors meticulously marking spelling…and grammar…and usage…and other sentence-level problems in their...