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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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The University and Community Engagement: Recent Approaches

If we’re going to do this,” DeAmon Harges told me, “we’re going to have to become friends.” The condition set me back on my heels. Of course, I wasn’t opposed to getting to know this Indianapolis-based nonprofit leader, rapidly becoming a national figure in community development conversations. But though I was far from reluctant to…
July 11, 2024
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All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism

Kevin Vallier has written a valuable exposition and critique of what he describes as radical religious alternatives to liberalism. Vallier is an Eastern Orthodox political philosopher at Bowling Green State University and a strong defender of the liberal tradition in politics. Liberalism in this sense refers broadly to such things as constitutional government, respect for…
July 10, 2024
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The Rush to Judgement about Canada’s Indigenous Schools’ “Grave Sites”:  What Christians Can Learn from Destructive Partiality – Part 2

I remember seeing the headlines and reading the stories while visiting relatives in Canada. In June of 2021, Sarah Beaulieu, an anthropologist who teaches at the University of the Fraser Valley, claimed to have found the graves of 215 Indigenous children at the site of a former Indigenous school in Kamloops British Columbia (later revised…
July 9, 2024
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Faith & Business: Beyond Add-On Models

With the ability to captivate our hearts, awaken imaginations and paint pictures of what it means to be a good person, stories help form (and malform) character and influence behavior.For a recent and thoughtful account of how character is formed consciously and unconsciously, see James KA Smith’s Cultural Liturgies books series: Imaging the Kingdom, Desiring…
July 3, 2024
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What Does Christianity Have to Do with Economics? Three Approaches

Since most faculty are trained in thoroughly secular universities and disciplines, it can take some work to figure out what difference Christian faith can have in the practice of your discipline. I have noticed that there is a particular difficulty of this kind for economists. In this blog post, I describe the background for that…
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July 2, 2024
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Personifying Prudence: The Face(s) of Wisdom

Wisdom often feels like a vague, shadowy concept—something we all want but do not really understand. Sometimes we equate wisdom with intelligence, but it certainly is not guaranteed by a high IQ. Sometimes we talk about wisdom as if it were a synonym for inner peace or an automatic characteristic gained from old age or…
June 25, 2024
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Making Virtue Personal, Part 1

My students rarely know what kindness really means. When they provide feedback on their classmates’ papers, for instance, they think kindness means happy faces and exclamation marks, and a “Great Job!” written at the end. And they often think people like me, who offer them substantial critiques to help make their writing better, are simply…
June 24, 2024