http://etbu.jerrysummers.com Life among the ETBU Tribe of Tiger Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Sam B. Hall Jr. Lectureship has been a feature on the ETBU campus since 1993 when it and the professorship were started. This year we will have a banquet and guest lecturer from The University of Mary Hardin Baylor, Dr. J. David Holcomb. His talk on the ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2010/02/07/the-sam-b-hall-jr-lectureship-for-2010/ At ETBU we cannot know the limits to the good that is to come from being intentional about our learning as a continual act of faith and grace. It must be so because our learning belongs to life, and if our lives are in Christ, then we are ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2009/06/20/learned-service/ It IS way past time to comment on the real news in ETBU Mass Communication: Dr. Roe and his students have ETBU radio streaming online, and TV lab training soon promises to expand in local partnerships; Dr. Franklin and his "greater debaters" (so they call themselves) have been acquitting ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2009/03/15/updates-on-newspaper-and-radio/ Class discussions the other day turned my thinking to the moral and ethical interrelationships of politics, economics, community, and ecology. These do all hang together in a concept of ecumene. No news to anyone, I suppose, but if any of us thought that our decisions, based as they ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2009/02/07/our-political-and-economic-ecology/ Welcome back to ETBU Dr. Frank Lower! Dr. Lower is teaching three courses while the department seeks God's best person for the position Dr. Dennis Robertson left when he became V.P. for Student Affairs here. (You can hear) Dr. Lower every day on KMHT - Marshalll 103.9 FM. ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2008/08/31/this-year-in-mass-comm-speech/ http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2008/08/28/etbu-quality-enhancement-plan/ Our travel-study group returned to Texas at DFW airport on Friday evening May 23rd, after an active, intense trip. Most of us were "pretty healthy", though China's air pollution had depressed the upper respiratory systems! So: Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Xi'an, and then back through Beijing (with ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2008/05/27/back-from-china/ So our plan to be in Lanzhou at our partner institution Lanzhou University of Technology will not work this year (no foreigners in Gansu Province), and our international director has us on the Beijing to Hong Kong train -- only a 25-hour trip. We can do that. Let's ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2008/05/04/planes-trains-and-itineraries/ That's right. Our ETBU travel study & BSM group goes to Beijing via DFW and SFO this next Monday. Our itinerary once we are there is under reconsideration -- more on that later. In reading Peter Jenkins' eighties book Across China about his trip to ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2008/04/29/six-days-until-china/ Our travel study group to China is growing and coming together along with the BSM leadership -- and will get ready to go during the spring semester! Our itinerary (about May 5-22): Beijing - Lanzhou - Xi'an - and then back through Beijing. The middle part in ... http://etbu.jerrysummers.com/2007/12/11/huma-337099-travel-study-china-in-may-08/