Recently, a colleague shared a question with me that he often discusses with his students during the first days of the semester. "Do you think Adam knew how to make a guitar?" It is a fun question to ponder, and to listen to students ponder. But, beyond the novelty of the pondering, I think this…

On June 1, 2025, 45-year-old Mohammed Sabry Soliman yelled "Free Palestine!" and tossed Molotov cocktails at Jewish participants at an event meant to draw attention to the plight of Israeli hostages. The cocktails burned eight of the participants, with one 82-year-old victim eventually dying. Two months later, on August 27th, a 70-year-old Jewish woman shopping…

Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well is philosopher Albert Borgmann’s final work, having been published posthumously following his death in May 2023 at the age of eighty-five. Borgmann served as professor of philosophy for five decades at the University of Montana until his retirement in 2020 and is best known for…

Evangelicals and Abortion Debates in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s: Back to the Bible Why were evangelicals slower than Catholics to join the pro-life cause? Historians have sometimes argued that it was because evangelicals were unconcerned about abortion in the years leading up to Roe v. Wade, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But…

In my last contribution to CSR, I tried to articulate, as briefly as possible, the “phenomenology of grace.”Mitchell, A. C. (2025, July 22). Revelation and Remembrance: Prayer and the Phenomenology of Grace. Christian Scholar’s Review, Christ Animated Learning Blog. How do persons sense, discern, and abide the world as it’s presented to them? How do…

In his 1939 sermon Learning in Wartime, CS Lewis considered whether education should continue amid high-stakes global conflict. Is learning something that should be suspended during a war, saved only for times of peace and predictability? Or does the acquisition of knowledge, learning, thinking, and prudential judgment become more important during moments of upheaval? Predictably…