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Why Formation in Charity Matters in the Face of Nihilism

August 24, 2026
Thanks to John Addleman, for inviting me to be a part of this conversation. I am Joe Creech, and it’s my privilege to serve as the executive director of the Lilly Network of Church-­Related Colleges and Universities. John asked me to say just a word about what that organization is. Since 1991, the Lilly Network—formerly…

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Vocations, Professions, and Our Motivations for Integration

It is a fundamental human urge to answer the questions: Who am I? Why do I matter? What is my life for? And because we are humans bearing the image of God, we have an indelible instinct that these questions of identity, value, and purpose have positive answers and that these answers have something to…

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“Discernment and Wisdom” ft. Biola University’s Mike Ahn I Saturdays at Seven – Season Four, Episode Five

In the fifth episode of the fourth season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Mike Ahn, Dean of Spiritual Development at Biola University. Ahn opens by discussing the ways Biola’s location in Southern California serves as a vibrant home for learning, discerning, and living. One of the ways in which…
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How Dickens Helps Me Read the Prophets: Contributions of Bleak House to Engaging Scripture

In these times of acute social, political, and economic tensions at home and abroad, it is not uncommon to hear calls for ‘prophetic’ voices who can offer substantive critique of injustice and bring expectations of change to marginalized communities of despair, if not to the broader society. In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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In What Age Do We Find Ourselves?

When Dr. Addleman wrote asking me if I might speak at a pre-­conference event for the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities gathering, he suggested the title: “What Age are We Living In?” I’m a historical and cultural sociologist, and in my writing and teaching, I like working with a big canvas. His suggestion offered…
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August 24, 2026

Why Formation in Charity Matters in the Face of Nihilism

Thanks to John Addleman, for inviting me to be a part of this conversation. I am Joe Creech, and it’s my privilege to serve as the executive director of the Lilly Network of Church-­Related Colleges and Universities. John asked me to say just a word about what that organization is. Since 1991, the Lilly Network—formerly…
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August 24, 2026

Formed by Our Work: The Cultural Logic of Christian Scholarship

If you want to know what an academic institution truly believes about itself, don’t start with its mission statement. Open a tenure file. Look at which publications are held in esteem, which grants are praised, and which writings are dismissed as mere filler. Long after we articulate our institution’s vision and mission, it’s those decisions…
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August 24, 2026

Christian Intellectual Institutions and the Age of Nihilism

How can Christian intellectual institutions—institutions dedicated to pursuing and understanding the good, the true, and the beautiful in the name of Christ—respond to an age of nihilism? That is the question raised by Dr. Hunter’s address, and it is the question I want to take up. In some ways, this can seem like a question…
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August 24, 2026

Augustinian Insights for Social Media Marketing

Social media use is growing around the world. There are currently 5.41 billion people using social media globally with about 63% of the world’s population actively using at least one platform. Social media platforms are popular among marketers as well, spending $247.3 billion on social media advertising globally in 2025, and comprising 30% of all…

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The CSR blog is published daily with contributions from over 30 experienced scholars and practitioners who discuss how Christ animates learning across a broad range of fields. The CSR blog provides a forum that both creates and curates interdisciplinary conversations about faith and learning in a way that draws and informs leading Christian scholars and practitioners from around the world.

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Vocations, Professions, and Our Motivations for Integration

It is a fundamental human urge to answer the questions: Who am I? Why do I matter? What is my life for? And because we are humans bearing the image of God, we have an indelible instinct that these questions of identity, value, and purpose have positive answers and that these answers have something to…
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October 7, 2026

You Are What You Feed (on)

The adage still holds true: “You are what you eat.” French author and gastronome Jean Brillat-Savarin astutely commented, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”  Although his comment was focused on the things we physically consume to fuel our bodies, it also rings true of the things in our…
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October 6, 2026

Reinforcement Learning: A Christian Perspective

A variety of large language models, commonly called “artificial intelligence” (AI), have seen increasing popularity and widespread adoption in recent years. In fact, the popularity of chatbots like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT has caused many to think that AI is synonymous with chatbots. However, AI comprises far more than chatbots, encompassing a variety of machine…
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October 5, 2026

Shrapnel Blast: Judging and Measuring 

“For with whatever standard you judge, you will be judged, and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.” - Matt 7:2  Matthew 7:2 has always fascinated me. It seems to sit at the juncture of some sticky Christian problems: Can you call out sin without judging? If we forego all judgment,…
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October 2, 2026

Students Aim to Be More Positive: We Must Teach Them to Be More Hopeful

My eighty-seven-year-old mother recently found out that the non-smoker’s lung cancer she had treated thirteen years ago is now back. My mother, a godly woman, told me that since this diagnosis, she has had even sweeter communion with the Lord. That’s not because she has learned to be more positive in an earthly sense. Physically…
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September 30, 2026

Book Review of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education

Are college students awake to the kind of person institutions are forming them into? Or are they similar to the cow in David Shrigley’s cartoon that looks at the milkman and asks, “What the hell are you doing?” (49). In the same way, are faculty members awake to the education they are providing their students?…

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