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How Are Men Fallen? Evaluating a New Toxic Masculinity Scale

Just as both men and women are created in God’s image, we are also both fallen. Moreover, there can be sex differences among men and women (often simply in terms of percentages and not absolutes) in the ways they demonstrate virtue and vice. What that means and what the redemption of masculinity and femininity might…
March 28, 2025
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The Joy of Administration

April is still a ways off so, no, I’m not trying to pull anyone’s leg. I really do find joy in academic administration…let me explain. My administrative work began as a department chair about 10 years ago when my dean asked if I’d consider serving. Honestly, I was a bit wary of some percolating challenges…
March 24, 2025
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Christian Higher Education Enrollment and Race/Ethnicity

My Canadian wife works extensively with international students at Baylor. Recently, she got to know two different Nigerian students. At one level, one would think that these international students from the same country would love to get together with one another. Yet, that view is premised on North American racial, ethnic, and national categories. It…
March 21, 2025

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Blessings from Heaven Above to Earth Below: Celebrating the Internal Karstic Conduits of Mount Hermon

Bright Hermon, with the dayspring on thy brow, and silver streamlets leaping round thy feet,— Shout forth thy ceaseless praise!                                                   —Horatius Bonar, 1881, Hymns of Faith and Hope You would hardly think that observing the hippopotamus in Africa near the southern extent of the Great Rift Valley would somehow be connected to Mount…
October 11, 2024
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Stewarding Our Bodies: A Vision for Christian Student Affairs

Glanzer and Smith’s new book Stewarding Our Bodies: A Vision for Christian Student Affairs opens with a bold claim: “Christian student affairs professionals currently neglect students’ bodies” (11). Reflecting upon disturbing data that suggest as much, Glanzer and Smith argue that Student Affairs Leaders (SALs) should be instrumental in facilitating college students’ development in this…
October 10, 2024
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“Only the Trying”: A Review of Leap of Faith

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…
October 9, 2024
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The Last Christian – Secularization and the Future

Secularization is inexorable. It is happening right now, all around you. The half-life of faith is getting shorter and shorter. The tipping point is upon us and, when it comes, the end game will play out with astonishing rapidity. Here or there rosy-eyed souls will see a little flutter of faith and call it revival,…
October 4, 2024
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Faith-Based Community Clinical Sites: Creating a Faith-Infused Nursing Practice

In the realm of nursing education, few experiences are as profoundly transformative as clinical rotations in homeless shelters. These settings provide a unique platform for undergraduate nursing students to practice their skills while encountering the complexities of care for individuals experiencing homelessness. Undergraduate students all participate in the care of people experiencing homelessness for at…
September 30, 2024