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This week I was given the privilege of leading our campus Environmental Stewardship Bible Study.  Currently the study is walking through various sections of the Bible in order to provide a scriptural foundation for concepts in environmental stewardship.  It was my good pleasure to lead a study on Psalms.  While the actual Bible Study [...]

In several lengthy discussions that I’ve had with friends and colleagues over my new interest in environmental stewardship, inevitably we begin discussing the stereotypes of environmental activists.  Being raised in West Texas my whole life, I haven’t really encountered very many individuals that would be classified as environmental activists, but I’ve certainly heard my [...]

During Calculus last week, we covered slope fields and Euler’s method of first order initial-value problems of the form

During class we demonstrated the use of slope field to perform a basic qualitative analysis. We utilized a couple of different online applets as well as Maple 13.
Visualizing Slope Fields and solutions Another similar page, with zoom
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At Wayland, there has been an increased emphasis on the need to "go green".  I’ll admit to having inherited a very West Texas conservative viewpoint on the environment.  I’ll even go so far as to admit not giving it much thought at all and just taking for granted the natural resources that are available [...]