{"id":6524,"date":"2018-04-19T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:04:29","slug":"special-speaker-and-book-offer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2018\/04\/19\/special-speaker-and-book-offer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Speaker and Book Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds<\/em> &#8212; Monday, September 17 at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0in Cullen Auditorium<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ayjay.org\">Alan Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0will share concepts from his 2017\u00a0book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howtothinkbook.com\">How To Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0faculty and staff during Summit 2018. While his book\u00a0suggests that we&#8217;re not as good at thinking as we assume, he assists readers in\u00a0identifying\u00a0how to recover this lost art and rescue our inner lives from the chaos of\u00a0modern culture. Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program and a Resident Fellow of Baylor&#8217;s Institute for the Studies of Religion.\u00a0 His book\u00a0draws on sources as far-flung as Christian theologian C. S. Lewis and basketball legend Wilt\u00a0Chamberlain. Jacobs maintains that In learning to think together, perhaps we learn to live together.<\/p>\n<p>Human Resources will have a limited number of <span class=\"m_6618274204862125529gmail-search-everything-highlight-color\">books made<\/span> available to\u00a0staff. Please complete\u00a0this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfEzBbUwtUGpXfxXc4Gm5_4adlCNsBd_0NjdyelQ2USgA6OHQ\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1&amp;usp=mail_form_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">form<\/span><\/a> to secure a copy of the <span class=\"m_6618274204862125529gmail-search-everything-highlight-color\">book<\/span> and mark your calendars\u00a0to hear Alan Jacobs speak. <em>Faculty can obtain their copy of the book from the Adams Center.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds &#8212; Monday, September 17 at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0in Cullen Auditorium Alan Jacobs\u00a0will share concepts from his 2017\u00a0book,\u00a0How To Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0faculty and staff during Summit 2018. While his book\u00a0suggests that we&#8217;re not as good at thinking as we assume, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}