Writings

  • Leadership Book Releases July 1

    Leadership Book Releases July 1

    Leadership the Wesleyan Way releases July 1 from Emeth Press. Find out more about the book at http://leadershipbook.bryaneasley.com, including a list of contributors and table of contents.  We hope to have purchase information and links available soon.

  • Standing Tall So Kings Will Bow

    Standing Tall So Kings Will Bow

    Some wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking to find one who had been born King of the Jews. This was a gutsy question, considering they’ve come into the capital city of Herod the Great, who has been King over the Jews for more than thirty years. But the magi know that Herod,…

  • Better Grading for Better Learning

    Better Grading for Better Learning

    In this post, I share some suggestions and practices for grading that I have found to be helpful in online teaching. In the first section, I share a bit of my grading philosophy and how I communicate with students. Then I talk about the value of a clear grading philosophy and how to set yourself and…

  • Dwelling Among Us

    Dwelling Among Us

    Written as a brief reflection for the final 2015 issue of Oklahoma Wesleyan’s Connect:ED faculty newsletter. —- As I write this, I am sitting in my daughter’s room at St. Francis Children’s Hospital here in Tulsa. She was admitted yesterday with a severe eye infection requiring several days of antibiotics. For the fifth time in…

  • Feeding Sheep: The Final Benediction, pt.4

    Feeding Sheep: The Final Benediction, pt.4

    Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 To the Leader “Do you love me? Feed my sheep,” asks Jesus of the one who would be his leader. The story closes with this familiar litany. Peter is still God’s man of the hour, still the chosen leader of the band. For Peter, for all the disciples, for all of…

  • The Great Piano Project, pt. 4

    The Great Piano Project, pt. 4

    What I learned taking an antique upright piano apart to clean and restore the inside… Part 1  |  Part 2  |  Part 3 Step 3: Cleaning Lower Case This post is not nearly as interesting as the others, but it is the next step in my project, so for the sake of chronology and archiving, here it…