Stump Speeches

In my blogging absence the last couple of months, there were numerous things that could have been blogged about.  This raises the tree-fa...

According to the stats that this free blogging platform provides, this is my 200th published post.  I thought I'd use this as an opport...

I have several ideas of things to blog about in the future.  A couple of them are:  my recent viewing of the movies Argo  and Skyfall ; a...

It has been almost two years since I was a blogger.  Sometime after I stopped, I saw Derry Prenkert and he informed me that he is a bloggin...

This is my 87th blogging entry (though there are a handful of those still in unpublished draft version), reaching back to April 27th with th...

It's Tuesday again. That means we step back from what we're doing here in Blogopolis and reflect on it. Two weeks ago today the di...

A conversation between two sitting at the table and one in the adjacent room (only the names have been changed to protect the innocent): Mr....

So my plea for a carefully articulated philosophy of blogging has been heard! There's a very nice series going on over on Derry Prenkert...

At some point, you run out of things to say on some topics...

Communication 101 drills into you that the first rule in communicating is to know your audience. Blogging by its very nature renders that a...

So during my hiatus from blogging over the last week and a half (or has it been longer?) I was in a couple of places where, rather unexpecte...

Well, I'm back from 2 weeks of vacation just in time to jet off to Portland, Oregon tomorrow for the big denominational conference. It ...

I'm up late, so the body clock doesn't know it's Tuesday yet, but technically it is. So here is the Tuesday post: One of the vi...

In the analysis of my blog traffic by statcounter , it tracks the last 500 page loads. Of these, about half have gone directly to this page....

Here continues my public reflections on the process of reflecting publicly. I'm settling into the rhythm of posting almost every day. ...

The following was submitted via handheld email device. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stump, James To: Stump, James Sent: Mon Jun 04 10:...

So I have down somewhere on my sidebar a blurb about the book Chad Meister and I are writing. I've been using this blog to start a gro...

I just finished leading a seminar on using PowerPoint for some faculty. I gave the qualifier at the beginning that I'm very sympatheti...

"Words, words, words" -- Hamlet "In the beginning was the Word" -- Apostle John The proliferation of blogs seems to be s...