Blog Eye Contact When is the last time you made serious eye contact with someone? Not just a glance, but sustained eye contact.…Rebecca KoerselmanApril 23, 2018
Blog “Class Outside” I don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but here in northwest Iowa, it’s still winter. It…Rebecca KoerselmanApril 9, 2018
Blog I Am Not Throwing Away My Shot Since Christmas, I’ve been listening to the soundtrack from the hit Broadway musical, Hamilton. I realize I’m a little late…Rebecca KoerselmanMarch 26, 2018
Blog “Won’t you be…my neighbor?” In the early hours of a Saturday morning, our baby provided us all with a wake up call. As we…Rebecca KoerselmanMarch 12, 2018
Blog The Cross and the Lynching Tree I regularly teach a survey course of US history and I am constantly revamping my content in light of current…Rebecca KoerselmanFebruary 26, 2018
Blog “Dragging All This Slavery Stuff Up Again is Bringing Down America” It’s that time of year again. Yes, black history month. So here’s 28 reasons to hug a black person today:…Rebecca KoerselmanFebruary 12, 2018
Blog Public Shaming is Not a Solution My alma mater has been in the news quite a bit recently. As attention is turned on Larry Nassar and…Rebecca KoerselmanJanuary 29, 2018
Blog Faith and Science Among many evangelicals (or whatever they should be called these days), the tension between science and faith is real. Today,…Rebecca KoerselmanJanuary 15, 2018
Blog A Festivus for the Rest of Us The Christmas holiday makes some people nuts. Seriously nuts. There’s a reason why George Costanza’s father, Frank, decided to reject…Rebecca KoerselmanDecember 18, 2017
Blog We All Have Stories The Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other facilities,…Rebecca KoerselmanDecember 4, 2017