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What Does a Christian Approach to Supporting Diversity Entail?

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…
September 25, 2026
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Science Once Again Dispels the Notion of “Junk”

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…
September 24, 2026
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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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Institutional Survival, The Chocolate War, and The Weight of Glory

All of us who read the Christian Scholars Review want Christian higher education to survive.  Most of us, anyway, are aware of the growing threats to our survival, both as individual colleges and universities; and to our survival as a collective enterprise. Where is Eastern Nazarene University today, Barrington, or Nyack—to limit ourselves for the…
December 3, 2025
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Academic Gratitude

We learn to practice virtues in specific contexts. Thus, academics always need to think about how to apply Christian virtues in their particular learning environment in specific ways. In particular, as academics, we should have special reasons to be thankful during this season. Anyone who teaches has received intellectual gifts that God does not bestow…
November 24, 2025
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The Ever Evolving and Evasive Nature of Knowledge

Editor's Note: Due to a technical issue with WordPress, this essay was published earlier this month without the text, only the tables. We have reposted the corrected version today.  Human culture and consciousness in the Global North have evolved profoundly over the past two millennia, and are conventionally referenced as the overlapping respective eras of…
November 21, 2025
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Thanksgiving, Hobbits, and the Way of Ennoblement

Jesus tells us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. With Thanksgiving approaching, I thought this an opportunity to reflect on giving, receiving, and what it means to be thankful. The popular conception of Thanksgiving is that it’s a time to give thanks for the blessings in our lives—for our family, friends,…
November 20, 2025
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Put on the Attire of Leadership (Part 2)

Many years ago, my wife, Phyllis, and I were the guests of the University of Notre Dame provost at a football game in South Bend, Indiana, between the Fighting Irish and West Point. At halftime, someone pointed me toward the private box where the leaders of the two schools were watching the game together. I…
November 19, 2025
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Leadership: It’s Not Only for Administrators (Part 1)

About 10 years after I became the president of Fuller Seminary, I received a letter from a college student asking me for career advice. His goal in life, he said, was to be the kind of academic president that I was, and he wondered how he should prepare for that role. I wrote back, telling…
November 18, 2025
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Music: The Soul of the Liberal Arts

Many colleges and universities, within the CCCU and without, continue to be faced with difficult questions regarding which academic programs to retain and which to “consolidate.” There are an incredible number of factors that inform each of these considerations, and I do not covet those who are tasked with the corresponding decisions. It is often…
November 17, 2025
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A Distinctly Christian Approach to Engineering

Should there be a distinctively Christian approach to engineering? If so, is it possible? After all, Christians and non-Christians seem to agree on all the technical details in engineering, like integration, derivation, Fourier transforms, and finite element analysis. So why do we take a distinctly Christian approach to engineering? The first and foremost reason that…
November 14, 2025