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Alan Wolfe once made the observation that among religious traditions, the intellectual standing of evangelicalism “ranks dead last.”Alan Wolfe, “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind,” Atlantic Monthly, October 2000, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/10/wolfe.htm, accessed March 1, 2012. In a somewhat bereaved tone, Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson contest the very nature of what stands for credible thinking among…

In my beginning years in Christian higher education, I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Eaton, current president of Seattle Pacific University (SPU). His desire to shape more fully and deeply the lives of college students directed our conversation. He recounted the strategies his institution was pursuing to prompt students to reflect on their lives…

In my beginning years in Christian higher education, I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Eaton, current president of Seattle Pacific University (SPU). His desire to shape more fully and deeply the lives of college students directed our conversation. He recounted the strategies his institution was pursuing to prompt students to reflect on their lives…

Transhumanism is a scientific-philosophical movement that desires to use biotechnological enhancement to bring humanity into a “posthuman” state. According to the movement’s website it “seek to make dreams come true in this world, by relying not on supernatural powers or divine intervention but on rational thinking and empiricism, through continued scientific, technological, economic, and human…

One of my favorite Far Side cartoons shows a young Patrick Henry pounding on the dinner table, exhorting his parents to “Give me the potatoes, or give me death!” The cartoon works because we so readily associate Henry’s name with his stirring speech on the eve of the American Revolution. Unfortunately, Henry’s call for “liberty…

A new release by Gordon College’s Thomas Albert Howard, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide is a thoroughly researched examination of the contrasting religious paths between Europeans and Americans. Professor Howard, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007 for Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German…

Six and a half years have passed, but I can still recall the look in his eyes. I met the Rev. Msgr. Gerard H. McCarren through a circle of scholars focused on the work of John Henry Newman. Father Gerry as his friends know him served (and still does) on the faculty at the seminary…