My university is having a national search for a new provost. Responsible for academic affairs, the provost is typically the second most important administrative position. The search made me wonder about something that I’d never thought before: who are the current provosts at private and faith-based universities like Pepperdine?
Continue reading “Women provosts at faith-based colleges and universities”
[July 2025: Happy to add that I applied for full professor a year early and earned it.]
Last December I received the news that I’d “passed” the first and by far most important stage of the tenure process. Having assumed the best outcome for the rest of the process, I created a road map a few days later. The road map was geared towards promotion to full professor as soon as possible.
Continue reading “The journey matters most: promotion and early promotion to full professor”

Continue reading “Vietnamese nationalism in a popular hymn about the Sacred Heart of Jesus”

Continue reading “A nineteenth-century Vietnamese account of the Lourdes apparitions”
I’d written a post about Năm Xưa Trên Cây Sồi [Years Ago on an Oak Tree], which has been, in my opinion, the most popular devotional Marian hymn in Vietnamese. This post is about a different hymn that happens to be about Our Lady of Fatima as well. Continue reading “Marian reparation in a Vietnamese hymn”


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