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Does Christian Faith Make a Difference in Mathematics?

Mathematics and logic are probably the two fields deemed least susceptible to religious influence. Doesn’t 2 + 2 = 4 and a2 + b2 = c2 (the Pythagorean Theorem) hold whether you’re a Christian, a Muslim, or an atheist? How can religious faith affect the truths of arithmetic or geometry? As a baby boomer growing…
September 22, 2026
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Scholarship in Company: Collaboration as a Christian Practice

As I head back into the regular rhythm of the school year and reflect on my summer, I find myself thinking about how much of it was spent writing and thinking alongside other people. Some of that work has been on two edited volumes: reading and responding to colleagues' chapters, debating introductions, moving texts around,…
September 21, 2026
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Rest and Sabbath (part 3)

Editor's Note: The following is the final part of Amy Davis Abdallah's review essay of G. P. Wagenfuhr and Amy Erickson’s Sabbath Gospel: A New Narrative of Time, Rest, and the Work of the Church; Euntaek David Shin’s Rest: A Theological Account; and Travis West’s The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection,…
September 18, 2026
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Rest and Sabbath (part 2)

Editor's Note: The following is the second part of Amy Davis Abdallah's review essay of G. P. Wagenfuhr and Amy Erickson’s Sabbath Gospel: A New Narrative of Time, Rest, and the Work of the Church; Euntaek David Shin’s Rest: A Theological Account; and Travis West’s The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection,…
September 17, 2026
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Rest and Sabbath (part 1)

It is no secret that the western world’s relationship with time, work, and community is complicated, generally unhealthy, and does not lead to restful, delighted lives. We tend to continually desire more and perfection, and so tend not to stop, cease, rest, or enjoy community. Three recent books seek to reconstruct our theology and habits…
September 16, 2026
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A Higher Education Toward the True Purpose of the University

On July 4, 2026, Dr. Robert B. Sloan, Jr., President of Houston Christian University, was called home to be with the Lord Christ after nearly two decades leading HCU. His leadership was marked by faithfulness to Christian higher education and a vision for a university rigorous in pursuit yet no less faithful in commitment. My…
September 15, 2026

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Virtue-Spotting Spotting: A Conversation with an Undergraduate Researcher on Research and Christian Virtues

I (Paul Kim) love mentoring undergraduate research. Something about teaching undergraduate students to refine the academic and professional skills normally reserved for their more advanced counterparts, combined with the eagerness and appropriate level of fear that younger students might bring into the first-time experience of joining a research lab, makes the research mentoring experience uniquely…
May 8, 2026
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The Brazen Serpent: Healing Through Sacred Art

(The following is an excerpt from the author’s new book, Church Beautiful: Sacred Art and Spiritual Healing, available now from Cascade.) Finding What’s Missing We live in a broken culture. Levels of distrust and anger are high. Among young people, especially, clinical depression and anxiety are woefully common. Patterns of self-isolation – the deliberate “checking…
May 6, 2026
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Generative AI, Market Values, and the Christian College

I’ll begin with a concession: by the standards that tend to govern education today, widespread employment of generative AI tools seems a marvelous idea. As colleges respond to the “enrollment cliff” by embracing market values and selling commodified diplomas to prospective student-consumers, a promise of the ability to leverage generative AI tools to synergize human-bot…
May 5, 2026
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Empathy is Not a Bad Word, Really

"Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2-3 is the foundation I use to introduce my research to students related to empathy. To me, the verse exemplifies empathy. Empathy is often defined as the ability to understand another’s emotions and experiences. What is often missing from this affective…
April 28, 2026