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AI, Translation, and Telling the Truth

I am working on a large translation project this year. I have been surprised to find several conversation partners voicing the assumption that I am getting AI to do the translating for me. I’ve been wondering how to respond. A short, but in the end inadequate answer is that, impressive as the current variations on…
June 3, 2026
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Navigating Murky Pathways through Christian Higher Education: A New Resource

How do faculty at Christian higher education institutions navigate their careers with purpose and with joy? That is the driving question behind our new edited collection, Purpose and Joy: Pursuing a Meaningful Career in Christian Higher Education, available this month from Abilene Christian University Press and Leafwood Publishers. When we first posted the call for…
June 2, 2026
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Where the Growth in Protestant Higher Education Is Happening

In March, I shared the good news regarding the growth of Protestant, particularly Evangelical, higher education enrollment over the past decade. In this post, I drill down deeper to discuss where this growth is occurring. What we find is that Protestant higher education institutions, in particular, are finding creative ways to grow amidst a tough…
May 29, 2026
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Book Review of The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England

Nicholas Jenkins’s recent book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England, assesses English poet W. H. Auden’s artistic engagement with his country, offering a reading of Auden’s interwar period as a political project, one in which the poet would attempt to cultivate the formation of an English people from the ruins of their recent history,…
May 28, 2026

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Test Everything

“…but test everything; hold fast what is good.” — 1 Thess. 5:21 (ESV) I teach computer science students how to program computers, and testing is a crucial component of learning to program. In fact, the modern approach to software engineering advocates a Test Driven Development where testing is simultaneously intertwined with the writing of code.…
September 16, 2025
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Higher Education’s False Egalitarianism

One of the strangest features of contemporary higher education is its false egalitarianism. Teachers and students, by definition, are not equals with respect to the practice in which they are engaged, though of course they may be equals in other respects. If the student were on the same level as the teacher, he wouldn’t need…
September 15, 2025
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A Review of David I. Smith, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom

David I. Smith’s most recent book, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom, represents yet another of his significant and vital contributions to Christian education. Commencing with an invitation to wisdom for teachers and their students, Smith offers philosophical insights along with practical strategies for authentically integrating faith into teaching practices.…
September 5, 2025
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A Call to (Christian) Excellence

One way to understand the evolution of popular management publications over the last 50 years is to see it as beginning with a reaction to the struggles of American manufacturing in the 1970s. Shocked by the oil embargo and an invasion of cheaper, more efficient foreign imports, US car manufacturers attempted to adapt quickly but…
September 4, 2025
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Are You Trying to Create Experts or Mentor Students toward Excellence? The Two Are Not the Same

One factor behind the recent populist revolt in North America and other parts of the world stems from an increasing distrust of various experts (esp. medical scientists, journalists, and general scientists). There are numerous reasons for this distrust—some of them consistent with a Christian theological perspective, but other reasons have led to a problematic undermining…
September 3, 2025
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Not a Prize to Be Sought,but a Calling to Be Lived (A Response to Paul R. Yost)

With God are wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.” —Job 12:13 I greatly appreciate Paul Yost’s poignant and generous review of The Crucibles that Shape Us.Gayle D. Beebe, The Crucibles that Shape Us: Navigating the Defining Challenges of Leadership (InterVarsity, 2024). He accurately amplifies what I hoped to identify and communicate while noting…
August 29, 2025
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Not a Prize to Be Sought, but a Calling to Be Lived (A Review)

The Crucibles that Shape Us by Gayle Beebe is an important addition to the Christian leadership literature on the challenges and growth that leaders will experience over the course of their careers. The book fills a missing space between books for secular business leaders and Christian ministry leaders. This book is written for Christian leaders…
August 28, 2025