Writing an Essay for an Edited Volume: Should You?
It seems like an opportunity. But is it instead merely a temptation? I have recently had conversations with publishers in the UK and USA...
Write Better
At this time of year, students are receiving back papers from professors with various forms of the same advice: “Please get help for your...
Some Advice for Students at “Crunch Time”
Farmers work harder during harvest than at any other time. But they also work happier, because they see every day the literal fruit of...
Advice for Students in Unsafe Places
“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...
Why Spelling Counts
Students often complain about professors meticulously marking spelling…and grammar…and usage…and other sentence-level problems in their...
Bad News for Religion Ph.D.’s…and Yet…
Here’s some bad news that no one finishing a Ph.D. in religious studies will find as all that surprising: the job market isn’t improving....
Going for the Ph.D. . . . Anyway (Part 2)
On this hand, I agree with the general advice that the Ph.D. demands too much time and money to pursue it unless you have a job in mind...
Going for the Ph.D. . . . Anyway (Part 1)
You have already read my page on considering Ph.D. studies here, right? Okay, then. Here’s some more to consider. You can read lots of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Thinking about a Ph.D.?
(With thanks to friend and former colleague Prof. Bruce Hindmarsh of Regent College for much of what follows.) As you undertake the...