The Great Courses

The Teaching Company brings engaging professors into your home or car through college courses on DVD, CD and audiotape. With over 200 courses, this resource is an unbelievable boon to those who can’t get back to the college class room but want college level material to expand their intellectual horizons. Courses range right across the academic spectrum – literature, philosophy, history, fine arts, science, religion and many others. I have used the ones on the history of Egypt, astronomy, and St. Augustine. A great learning experience. The costs are very reasonable. I encourage you to check out their catalog.

If all the women have the same hairdo!

Some time ago I was interviewing Kate Caley Young on my radio program “Road to Recovery.” (The radio program went into recovery-it’s still there). Kate is the author of “Home, Where the Hardest Things Happen.” In that book she tells of some of her struggles in church, one of which is the time as a kid in Sunday School her teacher used Kate’s mother as an illustration of what it meant to be a sinner. (Her mother had to waitress in a restaurant that served alchohol, the consumption of which was against this church’s covenant of membership). Let’s just say that things went downhill from there. Suffice it to say that church can be a dangerous place.