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Plagiarism as the Language of Ownership: Aligning Academic Liturgy with Christian Virtue

Policies regarding plagiarism and academic integrity are among the most common liturgies in American higher education, yet Christian teachers and scholars have given minimal attention to the ways such liturgies shape students’ assumptions about the ownership of words and ideas. While analyzing handbooks, honor codes, and academic policies, Rachel B. Griffis considers concepts of plagiarism…
January 15, 2020
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Opening the Red Door: The Inside Story of Russia’s First Christian Liberal Arts University

Reviewed by Rick Ostrander, Ostrander Academic Consulting It is no secret that Christian liberal arts colleges in the United States face significant challenges. Shrinking pools of high school graduates in some regions have led to stagnant or declining enrollments at many private institutions, creating significant financial pressures. Moreover, career-oriented parents often question the value of…
January 15, 2020
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Aristotle and Tolkien: An Essay in Comparative Poetics

Both Aristotle and Tolkien are authors of short works seemingly concentrated on one form of literary art. Both works contain references which seem to extend further than that single art and offer insights into the worth and purpose of art more generally. Both men understand the relevant processes of mind of the artist in a…
October 15, 2019
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Reviewed by Peter J. Snyder, Business, Calvin University The Prosperity Paradox is an important new book that takes a somewhat different look at the issue of poverty. Using the lens of innovation, Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon range across, to greater and lesser extents, economics, public policy, history, sociology, and development to reframe…
October 15, 2019
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The Orthodox Reality— An Extended Review

Allison Backous Troy is an independent scholar and essayist. Every Easter season, a popular meme from The Simpsons circulates around the social media pages of Eastern Orthodox Christians in America. The meme depicts the citizens of Springfield leaving an Easter service, and a lone Orthodox clergyman, complete with a bishop’s staff (adorned with a gold-gilded…
October 15, 2019
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“A Medium for Meeting God”: C. S. Lewis and Music (Especially Wagner)

This essay will survey Lewis’s writings and outline the development of his aesthetic ideas in relation to music, emphasizing his enjoyment of Wagner and explaining nuanced references to Wagner throughout Lewis’s works. Moreover, this essay will describe how Lewis’s ideas about God advanced in counterpoint to his ideas about music and how Lewis eventually came…
October 15, 2019
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A Framework for Digital Wisdom in Higher Education

Institutions of higher education have a crucial role and responsibility at this moment of technological change to form people who will flourish in our so-called digital age. The speed with which digital information and communication technologies have permeated our lives has left little time for critical reflection on how we may intentionally integrate them into…
October 15, 2019
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Redemptive Rehabilitation: Theological Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

In this article, we will attempt to build a multi-dimensional vision of rehabilitation, based in Christian understandings of human nature, redemption, and community. By first exploring what rehabilitation means and why it is important, we will then survey three models of restoration and rehabilitation which can be instituted as programs offered within the incarceration system…
October 15, 2019