Dr. BJ Condrey

Ahhh, it is difficult to blog during the summer! I finally finished a big push at my full-time job and have been working on other more substantial writing projects this summer. As one winds down, I really want to focus this month (August) on getting back to making a Daily Post every few days. Honestly, I really do need a new title since it is a far cry from “daily.” Oh well.

Updates: Since millions of people follow me and wait on the edge of their seats for my life updates, here are a few.

1. My family and I spent several days in North Georgie on vacation in early June (hiking, delighting in nature, eating good food, trout fishing, and a 6-mile float down a river and some small rapids)
2. Work has been crazy. I was very busy overseeing a process where we realigned our curriculum at Enlightium Academy to focus better on the development of the whole child/student
3. Just finished teaching a summer course on Ethics at Hutchinson Community College
4. Ezra is one week away from officially starting soccer in an academy
5. Rhema returns to ballet in one month
6. Allison and I celebrated our 14th anniversary!!! I love her and doing life with her!
7. Was informed that my paper “The Christian Educator as Prophet, Priest, and King: Nurturing Moral Formation in a ChatGPT Era” was accepted for publication by the International Journal of Christianity and Education. May the Lord use it to help those in the trenches. Oh, the times in which we live!
8. I will be finished tomorrow with an article that I am hoping will be accepted by a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on C.S. Lewis. My article will focus on how C.S. Lewis’ vision of how virtues are formed in the soul is heavily influenced by what Aristotle has to say in Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics. This requires a close study of The Screwtape Letters and the chapters in Book III of Mere Christianity. Of course, other gems are mined from the corpus of Lewis’ writings, but these two books are the focus. I hope it is accepted. What a joy it has been to think through moral progress in the Christian life while showing Aristotle’s influence on Lewis.
9. Reading Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship slowly; I just finished reading the part where he focuses on retribution…so, so challenging

May the Lord guide us all and not let us settle with the status quo.