Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well is philosopher Albert Borgmann’s final work, having been published posthumously following his death in May 2023 at the age of eighty-five. Borgmann served as professor of philosophy for five decades at the University of Montana until his retirement in 2020 and is best known for…

Evangelicals and Abortion Debates in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s: Back to the Bible Why were evangelicals slower than Catholics to join the pro-life cause? Historians have sometimes argued that it was because evangelicals were unconcerned about abortion in the years leading up to Roe v. Wade, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But…

In my last contribution to CSR, I tried to articulate, as briefly as possible, the “phenomenology of grace.”Mitchell, A. C. (2025, July 22). Revelation and Remembrance: Prayer and the Phenomenology of Grace. Christian Scholar’s Review, Christ Animated Learning Blog. How do persons sense, discern, and abide the world as it’s presented to them? How do…

In his 1939 sermon Learning in Wartime, CS Lewis considered whether education should continue amid high-stakes global conflict. Is learning something that should be suspended during a war, saved only for times of peace and predictability? Or does the acquisition of knowledge, learning, thinking, and prudential judgment become more important during moments of upheaval? Predictably…

For two thousand years Christians have wrestled with what it means to follow Jesus’s command to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God. In Romans 13 Paul tells us we should obey and honor the authorities, and his Roman citizenship twice plays a pivotal role in the drama…

It was a quiet morning in my basement carrel in the Calvin College library. I was reading the Gospel of John— the only book of the Bible past Genesis that begins with the words, “In the beginning...”. My family had recently left our beloved Town of Dunn in Wisconsin for my childhood home of Grand…