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Intelligently Designed Discussion: My Journey through Intellectual Fear in Higher Education

This essay chronicles how a freshly minted college professor navigated the many potential passageways one encounters when teaching biology at a Christian liberal arts college. It describes a journey of initial idea evasion that eventually led to academic engagement with students who collectively sought more than just textbook knowledge. In the process, the author discovered…
January 15, 2017
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Wisława Szymborska, Adolf Hitler, and Boredom in the Classroom; or, How Yawning Leads to Genocide

Contemporary attitudes toward student boredom have varied greatly. Whereas some have viewed it as a relatively trivial, even inevitable fact of classroom life, others have sought remediation through improved engagement techniques. Lost in many of these discussions, however, is a clear sense of the moral stakes associated with boredom. Drawing upon the work of Polish…
January 15, 2017
Reviews

Divine Sex: A Compelling Vision for Christian Relationships in a Hypersexualized Age

Reviewed by Brad A. Lau, Student Life, George Fox University There are few topics more timely and timeless than the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary cultural understandings of human sexuality. In this carefully researched and thoughtful work, Jonathan Grant details the societal challenges that exist while suggesting a practical and convincing Christian vision for…
January 15, 2017
Reviews

Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime

Reviewed by Kevin John Frank Pinkham, English, Nyack College James Gunn’s introduction to Harry Harrison’s short story “The Streets of Ashkelon” includes the claim: Science fiction cannot be written from an attitude of religious belief. Science fiction questions everything. It accepts nothing on faith. ... Science fiction’s religion is skepticism about faith, although there is…
January 15, 2017
Review and Response

Response to Christian Smith

Christian Smith considers it “too narrow and exacting” to require that Christian scholarship seek to “weav science and theology integrally together.” I, on the other hand, consider that to be the sine qua non of scholarship that is Christian. I am not suggesting that every individual work of Christian scholarship needs to articulate theological or…
January 15, 2017
Reviews

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Reviewed by David M. Johnstone, Student Life, George Fox University Soong-Chan Rah ranks among the top American scholars who perceptively understand the contemporary Western church, speak prophetically into it, offer hope, and do not hesitate to probe the theological implications of scripture. I count his Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times as…
January 15, 2017
Extended Review

Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics

During the last two decades, Craig Bartholomew has authored and edited an impressive number of volumes covering a wide range of subjects (550-551). A partial topical list includes the Bible’s unified story (The Drama of Scripture, 2004, co-authored with Michael Goheen), Christian worldview (Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview, 2008), the book…
Paul R. House
October 15, 2016