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Privileged to Work, Privileged to Teach

A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon cleaning out. I’m a fairly compulsive cleaner-outer, not overly sentimental, and very much in favor of order. This particular cleaning out was hard on me, though. I knew it would be going into it, but I was surprised by the direction my thoughts took and the strength…
January 20, 2026
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Four Necessary Skills for Christ-Animated Learning (Part IV): Developing Christian Critical Thinking about Academic Sub-Cultures

Culture is one of those overused words that requires a clear definition to be helpful. Personally, I find one of the most useful definitions comes from H. Richard Niebuhr’s book, Christ and Culture. Every Christian should read Niebuhr’s famous work to help them develop Christian critical thinking about how Christ can and should animate one’s…
January 16, 2026
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At Christmastime: Faith and Memory

The Christmas tree is tall and wide, and its sharp smell fills the room. It seems to own the space around it, and the rest of us hover in its shadow, coming and going like ghosts or puffs of wind. Somehow, the tree feels more real than the thing we call “reality.” My child self…
December 19, 2025

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Book Review – Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land

There is now a well-developed Christian literature addressing the dualism of mind- body, and the consequences for our health and flourishing when this dualism is taken for granted, ignored, or unchallenged. Theologian Norman Wirzba suggests there is another dualism that similarly threatens our spiritual-physical-social health; this is the dualism between humanity and the rest of…
March 16, 2023
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Professing Christ in Public Universities: An Interview with Jonathan Pettigrew

Integratio Press recently published Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-Learning Integration in Public Universities.Jonathan Pettigrew and Robert H. Woods Jr., eds., Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-Learning Integration in Public Universities (Pasco, WA: Integratio Press, 2022). Edited by Jonathan Pettigrew and Robert H. Woods Jr., this book includes contributions from 18 current or former faculty…
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Christianity and Libraries: A “Conversation” with ChatGPT

After hearing repeatedly about ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool that OpenAI made available a few months ago, I finally decided to give the system a test drive in mid-February. I chose to engage ChatGPT in an exchange about the relationship between Christians and libraries—a subject area on which I have written and presented repeatedly, especially…
March 8, 2023
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The Doomsayers Are Wrong about Christian Higher Education (and Should Correct Their Alarmist Claims)

The sky is falling rhetoric tends to be overused when it comes to Christian higher education (CHE). This past month, one person tweeted upon learning that Trinity International University is discontinuing residential and in-person undergraduate education, “Christian higher ed is imploding.” This tweet was less reflective of empirical reality and more reflective of the struggles…
March 7, 2023
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You’re Only Human: An interview with Kelly Kapic

You're Only Human by Kelly M. Kapic, Professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, is a book recently published by Brazos Press (and which recently won a Christianity Today Book of the Year award). The point of the book is clearly stated in the subtitle: “How your limits reflect God’s design…
March 6, 2023
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Singing Stones

Albrecht Durer, Rock Study, ca. 1497, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria In a memorable exchange from Luke’s gospel, Jesus (as he was wont to do) rebukes the Pharisees. The jubilant events of Palm Sunday are happening. The Pharisees are scandalized and tell Jesus to make His disciples quiet down. In response, Jesus says, “if they keep…
March 3, 2023