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The Curse That Sanctifies Us All

The popular futuristic fantasy of a world without work has been receiving increased attention lately. In a January 2026 podcast, Elon Musk opined that people should no longer worry about saving for retirement because, in the world of abundance to come, those savings would be irrelevant.1 By 2030, he claimed, artificial intelligence would be smarter…
April 7, 2026
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The “Why” of the Christian Scholar’s Review

Almost every company in America can point to a corporate plan that highlights its unique strengths, market segments, growth opportunities, and headwinds. Many Christian not-for-profits, and especially Christian higher education institutions, can also point to their own strategic plans that focus on their mission, key areas for growth, and the steps they will take to…
April 6, 2026
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Do Near-Death Experiences Offer Clues to the Scope of Salvation?

They claim to be eyewitnesses to eternity, spectators to the supernatural. “I’ve seen Heaven” is their audacious claim. “I met God there.” “I’m no longer afraid to die because I know there’s life after death, and it’s more real than real life!” One even described the experience like this: “If you took the one-thousand best…
April 2, 2026
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Cosmic Cannibalism: Fathers and Sons

From Ivan the Terrible, to Suleiman the Magnificent, to Logan Roy on HBO’s “Succession,” are powerful fathers doomed to crush their children? And are “paternal” leaders (like “Papa Joe,” Joseph Stalin) all too likely to sacrifice and exploit the people they’re supposed to protect?  In my Art History classes, one image that reliably provokes discussion…
March 30, 2026
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Book Excerpt from Psychology and Diversity: A Christian Engagement

Why and How We Should Study Culture and Psychology in a Christian Faith Perspective How Should We Approach Culture, Psychology, and Christian Faith? With the love of all neighbors as the basis, I will propose how we might implement studying psychology in a Christian perspective. If the overarching goal is the love of all neighbors,…
March 27, 2026

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What Is a Christian University? A New Book That Answers This Question

During my academic career researching faith-based higher education in North America and around the world, I have received three types of emails. First, parents often write me with their questions about the confusing array of Christian colleges and universities. They are about to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they realize that unlike buying…
November 17, 2023
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Faithful Learning: A Vision for Theologically Integrated Education

I have taught at Houston Christian (formerly Houston Baptist) University since 1991, and I am happy to report that the university has spent the last two decades intentionally recruiting, encouraging, and equipping professors committed to the integration of faith and learning in every discipline of the modern university. I, along with dozens of my colleagues,…
November 16, 2023
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The Blessed Inescapability of Service

Sometimes students’ reasons for becoming entrepreneurs go beyond the desire for lifestyle freedom. Some young people bristle at the idea of having someone in authority over them. More than autonomy, they want power and immunity from the demands of others, and they imagine being their own boss as equivalent to achieving it. They imagine organizing…
November 15, 2023
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Introducing Christian Scholar’s Review 2023 Fall Issue

As a multidisciplinary journal, we strive to ensure that all of our pieces would interest a general academic audience. This doesn’t mean they are dummied down in any sense of that phrase. The articles stand on their own as academic pieces. In multiple indexes such as Google Scholar and Researchgate, I can see that our…
November 14, 2023
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A Key Practice for Developing the Evangelical Mind

The October 2000 issue of The Atlantic featured a lengthy article by the Boston College sociologist Alan Wolfe on “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind.” Wolfe’s portrayal of evangelicalism’s intellectual contributions came as a word of encouragement to many of us who had heeded the warnings that Mark Noll had issued six years earlier in…
November 10, 2023
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Deep Thoughts about the Meaning of Life

“Hypocrites!” Jesus leveled this harsh judgment with a single word, and he was just ramping up. After describing the people’s remarkable ability to predict the weather, he chastised them: “You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”Lk.…
November 8, 2023
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Disabling Scripture? A Response to Melanie Howard

In her two-part series, “Disabling Ableism,” Melanie A. Howard encourages Christian educators “to engage in our mission-driven work by rooting out the ableism that separates us from one another and denies us the flourishing for which were created.” We warmly affirm Howard’s intent to raise awareness of the often-latent bias of ableism, to increase access…
November 7, 2023
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Bootstrapping

In the modern world, youth culture, and especially collegiate culture, is often activist culture. Among the college-aged, a freshness of vision combines with just enough personal skill and knowledge to beget (at least sometimes) a burning sense of responsibility. One phrase associated with collegiate protest culture, and with social activism in general, is “be the…
November 6, 2023