Todd C. Ream is Professor of Higher Education at Taylor University, the Senior Fellow for Programming for the Lumen Research Institute, and the publisher for Christian Scholar’s Review. Previously, Ream served on college and university campuses in residence life, student support services, honors programs, and as a chief student development officer. He is the author…
Overlooked by film critics, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant crafted subversive Christian allegory into his Academy Award-winning adaptation of mystery novel In the Heat of the Night. This essay demonstrates that Silliphant reframed both the book’s main character, Virgil Tibbs, and the book’s murder victim as countercultural Christ-figures who confront the lifeless and racist cultural Christian religion…
Geert HeetebrijApril 15, 2020
Reviewed by Andrew Mullen, Education, Westmont College “Oh, give it a few years and it’s bound to go secular like Harvard and all the rest.” The words of my somewhat fatalistic father-in-law on the occasion of his first visit to the college where I now teach regularly echo in my mind. His words potentially serve…
Andrew MullenApril 15, 2020
Lenore M. Knight Johnson is associate professor of Sociology and co-director of the Honors Program at Trinity Christian College. Crumbling public schools. Gun violence. Loss. Failure. Death. Grief. The stories we commonly hear of Chicago paint a grim picture dominated by all that is broken in the third largest city in the United States. Yet…
Lenore M. Knight JohnsonApril 15, 2020
Justin Ariel Bailey is assistant professor of theology at Dordt University. His research explores the intersections of Christian theology, culture, and ministry, and his forthcoming book is entitled Reimagining Apologetics: The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age (IVP Academic, 2020). Every semester, I teach a Bible survey course, mostly to freshmen undergraduates. Early in…
Justin Ariel BaileyApril 15, 2020
Reviewed by Matthew Hill, History, Liberty University Each of us in our own way inherit traditions that are often little understood. Churches are stocked with American flags, and songs such as Katherine Lee Bates’s “America the Beautiful” and Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” are often sung on the Fourth of July, but few understand how…
Matthew HillApril 15, 2020
I argue in defense of a particular answer to the question “what happens to us after we die?” While not much discussed nowadays, it was, I believe, the view of Thomas Aquinas. The view is that while human souls are capable of surviving death in a disembodied state, and remain in that state capable of…
Adam WoodApril 15, 2020
Rebecca C. Hong is Senior Director of Educational Effectiveness and Assessment at Loyola Marymount University. On September 6, 2018, Amber Guyger, a white female off-duty Dallas police officer entered the home of Botham Jean, an unarmed 26-year-old black neighbor, and fatally shot him to death. Guyger testified that when she entered the home of Jean,…
Rebecca HongApril 15, 2020
Jeremy Norwood is Professor of Sociology at Spring Arbor University and serves as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Global Studies, and Criminal Justice. One of the most widely circulated phrases regarding armed conflict in East Africa is the adage that “when two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.” The phrase refers…
Jeremy NorwoodApril 15, 2020
In this article we document correlations between practices once regarded as sinful, both personal and social, and medical evidence of increased morbidity and decreased longevity. We suggest that more attention needs to be given to such correlations, especially considering the escalation of costs associated with maintaining good public health, and further, that ancient and medieval…
David Lyle Jeffrey and Jeff LevinApril 15, 2020
