When my students read Ralph Waldo Emerson, I have students read his essays with a local pastor’s “Spot the Lie” game in mind. Emerson has so many “feel-good” ideas, and there are bits and pieces of truth interspersed with the gobbledygook. They close the Emerson unit by reading his “Divinity School Essay” and writing an essay on the degree to which his ideas do and do not conform to scripture.