Hackman's Musings

I am working on memorizing my lines this morning for a play I will be in soon.  Some of my scenes are now at a point of being “thought perfe...

I remember a study I read in grad school about which teaching methods were the most successful with students. The conclusion? Whatever metho...

I have a few Evangelical ties on Facebook and in real life. So, at least once a week, I see Evangelicals' favorite verse. "Jesus sa...

"That's the difference between the Democratic and the Republican Party - Democrats are hostage to their crazy minority and Republic...

Someone asked me if I believed in a historical Jesus- "I think there probably was a Jesus... but everything we know of him is 2nd hand,...

I wrote this in a discussion about Abraham and Issac 10 years ago- First, I don't think the event actually happened... It is a moral fab...

"'People kill for money or for power,' DeMello's Holy One teaches. 'But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill ...

In my classroom, the kids have weekly assigned jobs.  One of them is to pass out sanitizing wipes.  First thing after we come in the door, a...

I recently read an article by science fiction writer, David Brin, commenting on Congress's need to address some UFO conspiracies.  Be i...

I think parents, teachers, and students need to give themselves a little grace during that first month of school. Have you ever turned down ...