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How to Train a Trillionaire

Elon Musk recently made the headlines for his proposed Tesla pay package that could exceed one trillion dollars,1 setting a new high watermark in CEO compensation. It is unlikely that Musk will actually receive that amount for multiple reasons. The proposed pay scheme includes a series of financial targets, including dramatically increasing the firm’s market…
June 4, 2026
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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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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