If you follow trends in software engineering, you may have encountered the term “vibe coding,” recently popularized by Andrej Karpathy, deep learning researcher and OpenAI co-founder. This is how he defines the approach: There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding,” where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that…
Christ-Animated Learning could occur in plenty of unexpected domains. Consider student conduct codes. As part of a larger research project, I have spent time looking at 366 student conduct codes from Protestant colleges and universities in America. One would think that these codes would be an ideal place for some Christian moral education to occur….
In the same way you can discover something important about a university by how it names its department teaching about Christianity (e.g., Religion, Theology, Bible, Christian Studies), you can learn something about a university by how it labels the moral ideals it sets forth for students. You can also ascertain a great deal about them…
Universities, including Christian ones, have become quite comfortable with what some might describe as the “virtue” of honor. Although we may instinctively classify it as a favorable trait, honor—as it exists on college campuses today—has a troubled backstory. What is more, today’s faculty and administrators who esteem honor may not know about its contentious history….
Today, I want to commend to you a new documentary that was released on October 4 in select cities: Leap of Faith. The movie is directed by Nicolas Ma and produced by Morgan Neville, both of whom were involved in making the wonderful 2018 documentary on Mr Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Here I’ll also shout…
Not long ago, I overheard two seasoned flight attendants talk about flying into Houston, Texas, which one referred to as “the armpit of the United States.” I leaned over and asked if she had ever lived there. She said, “No, I’ve lived in Southern California my whole life”— (a case of “Californication” the Red Hot…
In this essay, Charlie W. Starr argues that evangelical Christians do not know what art is for. In an age when the best that even theologians can offer in response to the arts is “culture war” or “worldview analysis,” Christians who want to find the intersection between faith and film should look to C. S….
Each generation has the obligation to interpret the past for itself with the best tools that it has available, even if choosing to accept most of the views which it has inherited. Similarly, each scholar has the obligation to seek to find what the optimum blending is of his or her most important personal values…
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland debuted last month in select theaters and on Hulu. On Sunday it won Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes, and Zhao took home the prize for Best Director. The film stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a widow who moves from job to job, lives out of her white utility van,…
The publisher and editors of the Christian Scholar’s Review are pleased to announce the recipient of its annual award for best article. The winner of the Charles J. Miller Christian Scholar’s Award for volume 41 is Jim Halverson, professor and chair of History and Intercultural Studies at Judson University. His article, “Restored Through Learning: Hugh…
The publisher and editors of the Christian Scholar’s Review are pleased to announce the recipient of its annual award for best article. The winner of the Charles J. Miller Christian Scholar’s Award for volume 42 is Rick Kennedy, professor of history at Point Loma Nazarene University. His article, “Educating Bees: Humility as a Craft in…
Bethany Keeley-Jonker and Craig Mattson notice that some of their best speech students practice a delivery so controlled it feels uncanny. This essay traces such “zombie speech” not to students’ worldview assumptions but to affective norms in conventional speech pedagogy. The essay appropriates Christian theology to reorient the practice of speech in keeping with a…
In the twenty-first episode of the second season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Amanda Hontz Drury, Professor of Theology and Ministry and Director of the Imaginarium at Indiana Wesleyan University. Drury opens by discussing the discernment process that led her to establish the Imaginarium as well as the commitments that animate it. One commitment is a desire to leverage innovation in ways that shares the timeless commitments of the Christian tradition with children and adolescents. Another commitment is children and adolescents have far more to offer in terms of feedback concerning programs focused on their development than is often perceived. Drury then offers details concerning her own faith formation and how a haunting question concerning the persistence rates of adolescents in terms of faith formation proved foundational to how she understands her vocation as a clergyperson and scholar. As someone eventually appointed to the faculty with whom she studied as an undergraduate, Drury also reflects on the key components of that transition and lessons that may be of benefit to faculty members making comparable transitions. Drury then closes by discussing how her understanding of the academic vocation is best exercised by having one foot in academe and one foot in the Church.
In 2011 Pepperdine University hosted a conference in which Francis S. Collins offered the keynote address. His credentials are extraordinary: Collins is an accomplished research scientist, physician, director of the Human Genome Project, and subsequently director of the National Institutes of Health for three consecutive United States presidents. A devout Christian believer, he authored The…
This blog post explores the intersection of faith and business education by incorporating “spiritual assignments” within the framework of a modern business school curriculum. I aim to share the possible connection between these two realms and shed light on educators’ invaluable assistance in fostering students’ comprehension of this connection. In this post I will prompt…
Our students are often our best teachers. Their actions often expose the ungodly perspectives and habits that have accumulated on us like barnacles on a ship. I encountered two stories while coding interviews from Baylor students that reminded me that I have some barnacles from difficult experiences about loving the unlovable. If I had been…
The publisher and editors of the Christian Scholar’s Review are pleased to announce the recipient of its annual award for best article. The winner of the Charles J. Miller Christian Scholar’s Award for volume 43 is Kevin D. Miller, professor of Communication, Huntington University, Huntington, Indiana. His article, “Reframing the Faith-Learning Relationship: Bonhoeffer and an…
Reviewed by Marion H. Larson, English, Bethel University Joy Davidman is best known today as the wife of C. S. Lewis, her untimely death poignantly portrayed in the play and subsequent film Shadowlands. Many also know of her through the touching reflections on death and the problem of pain that Lewis penned in A Grief…
Reviewed by Lenore M. Knight Johnson, Sociology, Trinity Christian College Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, best known for her explorations into the intersections of work, family, and personal life, departs from her previous work and dives into the world of American political divisions in her most recent book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning…
