J. Bruce Fowlkes

dad, husband, college chaplain, ombudsperson, aspiring Luddite

A Meditation for Professors: the Wonder and Vulnerability

What you do as a professor is risky. You embody a good amount of vulnerability. Teaching is not just reporting information. Something of…

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Looking Back

Reflection from Chaplain Bruce

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Lit From Within

A sermon for faculty and staff to begin Eureka College’s school year.

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Why We Are Here

‘We Are Here’ is a song and a movement for peace, equality, and change you can join today

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Old Music, Same Tune

The Eureka College Student Volunteer Band (circa 1909) is pictured on this postcard image. It was mailed by Bertha Lyon (Class of 1912) to…

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Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away…

I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement. I am a pretty unlikely…

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