My eighty-seven-year-old mother recently found out that the non-smoker’s lung cancer she had treated thirteen years ago is now back. My mother, a godly woman, told me that since this diagnosis, she has had even sweeter communion with the Lord. That’s not because she has learned to be more positive in an earthly sense. Physically…

Are college students awake to the kind of person institutions are forming them into? Or are they similar to the cow in David Shrigley’s cartoon that looks at the milkman and asks, “What the hell are you doing?” (49). In the same way, are faculty members awake to the education they are providing their students?…

One of the first things I learned when I started graduate school was how to be a hockey coach. Actually, this happened several weeks before I registered for any courses at the University of Alberta. We arrived in Edmonton—four hundred miles north of the Montana border—well before the first academic term began. We had no…

From our nation’s beginnings, Americans have feared the death of religion. The Puritans had not even arrived in the New World before they started predicting what would happen should they prove faithless to the Lord. In his “Model of Christian Charity” address, given to English Puritans departing for New England in 1630, Massachusetts Bay Company…

I imagine many readers of Christian Scholars Review are aware of Tyler Austin Harper's Atlantic essay, "Confessions of a Token Black Professor." Harper writes about the five years he spent as a tenure-track professor of environmental studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. During his years at Bates, he says he was treated more as…

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well. – Psalm 139:14 Protein biogenesis in eukaryotic cells proceeds through a highly coordinated series of molecular events that begin in the nucleus. Gene expression initiates with transcription by complex molecular machines mostly composed of proteins, during which…