From our nation’s beginnings, Americans have feared the death of religion. The Puritans had not even arrived in the New World before they started predicting what would happen should they prove faithless to the Lord. In his “Model of Christian Charity” address, given to English Puritans departing for New England in 1630, Massachusetts Bay Company…

I imagine many readers of Christian Scholars Review are aware of Tyler Austin Harper's Atlantic essay, "Confessions of a Token Black Professor." Harper writes about the five years he spent as a tenure-track professor of environmental studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. During his years at Bates, he says he was treated more as…

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well. – Psalm 139:14 Protein biogenesis in eukaryotic cells proceeds through a highly coordinated series of molecular events that begin in the nucleus. Gene expression initiates with transcription by complex molecular machines mostly composed of proteins, during which…

Most students come to college with plans for a job but seldom consider their need for a theology of work. Their parents have told them they will one day require money, and they almost all want to pursue lives filled with meaning, but they are often held hostage to economics in understanding precisely what it…

Mathematics and logic are probably the two fields deemed least susceptible to religious influence. Doesn’t 2 + 2 = 4 and a2 + b2 = c2 (the Pythagorean Theorem) hold whether you’re a Christian, a Muslim, or an atheist? How can religious faith affect the truths of arithmetic or geometry? As a baby boomer growing…

As I head back into the regular rhythm of the school year and reflect on my summer, I find myself thinking about how much of it was spent writing and thinking alongside other people. Some of that work has been on two edited volumes: reading and responding to colleagues' chapters, debating introductions, moving texts around,…