Head of St. George's Independent School
[I gave the following talk during Commencement at St. George's Independent School on Saturday, May 18, 2019.]Good morning! Welcome to our celebration of the Commencement of the Class of 2019. The …
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St. George's Independent School Head Chaplain, Jessica Abell, recently asked two questions during a homily at the Germantown campus: “How many of you have Alexa at home? And, what do you ask her? The …
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I read a blog post from Tracie Mastronicola, Academic Dean at San Francisco Friends School, over the weekend. Having worked with a small group of faculty members at SFFS over a couple of days in …
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[I gave the following homily at the Opening Convocation of St. George's Independent School on its Collierville Campus two days after the violent and tragic white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, …
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[I spoke yesterday at the Easter Service for the sixth through twelfth grades at St. George's Independent School. As students walked in, we projected a scroll of pictures from an event Tuesday where a …
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In November of 2011 I wrote "Stretching the Rubber Band on a Progress Culture." As the second installment of Ross All Over the Map #throwbackthursday, this one comes back to mind for me quite often as …
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