“In the one Christ, we are one.”                                          -motto of Pope Leo XIV The Catholic Church has recently elected a new pope, not quite three weeks after the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. Meanwhile, I have been thinking about Christian education in the city of Seattle, where I teach at a Protestant university…

The standard format for each issue of Christian Scholar’s Review over the past fifty years has typically begun with three or four peer-reviewed articles, followed by book reviews and occasionally article-length extended reviews. In this issue, we are altering our traditional format to begin with a book review forum curated by our new book review…

Editor's note: What follows is a letter that the author wrote to his daughter at the outset of her college search. Dear Madeleine, As you continue to prepare for college, I want to share a bit of my mind and heart, not for the particular university you attend, but for the kind of university you…

In "The Anxious Generation: A Christian Educator’s Reflection," I explored insights from Jonathan Haidt's book from a Christian perspective. I specifically paralleled the rise of anxiety among young people with the concepts of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, demonstrating how these themes could enrich Haidt’s analysis. In his book, Haidt offers a way to reverse…

Note: This post is part 2 in a two-part series. Part 1 provided a general introduction to the importance of deep learning dispositions not just to students' growth in subject-matter competence but to spiritual growth. This was followed by an exploration of how two (of five) dispositions explicitly facilitate spiritual formation when applied. Today's post…