Pope Leo XIV released his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, a roughly 42,000-word document outlining a Catholic response to recent developments in AI. I had been eagerly anticipating this encyclical and spent much of the release day poring over the text. While there have been other Christian efforts to release statements about…

Elon Musk recently made the headlines for his proposed Tesla pay package that could exceed one trillion dollars,1 setting a new high watermark in CEO compensation. It is unlikely that Musk will actually receive that amount for multiple reasons. The proposed pay scheme includes a series of financial targets, including dramatically increasing the firm’s market…

I am working on a large translation project this year. I have been surprised to find several conversation partners voicing the assumption that I am getting AI to do the translating for me. I’ve been wondering how to respond. A short, but in the end inadequate answer is that, impressive as the current variations on…

How do faculty at Christian higher education institutions navigate their careers with purpose and with joy? That is the driving question behind our new edited collection, Purpose and Joy: Pursuing a Meaningful Career in Christian Higher Education, available this month from Abilene Christian University Press and Leafwood Publishers. When we first posted the call for…

In March, I shared the good news regarding the growth of Protestant, particularly Evangelical, higher education enrollment over the past decade. In this post, I drill down deeper to discuss where this growth is occurring. What we find is that Protestant higher education institutions, in particular, are finding creative ways to grow amidst a tough…

Nicholas Jenkins’s recent book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England, assesses English poet W. H. Auden’s artistic engagement with his country, offering a reading of Auden’s interwar period as a political project, one in which the poet would attempt to cultivate the formation of an English people from the ruins of their recent history,…

In my first posts with CSR (see here, here, and here), I explored stories of conviction, transformation, and the slow work of formation. Today’s story introduces a compass that I use to navigate learning in the age of AI, and of course, it’s about bananas, absurd deals, and the choices we make in our learning…

The other day, I got a call from a friend who’s finishing work at a dying Christian college. But she did not call to seek condolences. She called to share stories about the final weeks of this final semester. Despite tears in her voice, she sounded more joyously stunned than grieved. Students and professors should…

Here are some fake college course evaluations for Jesus courtesy of Amanda Lehr: “Kind of absent-minded. My name’s Simon, and he’s called me ‘Peter’ for the entire semester.” “A complete joke. Only got the job because his dad is important.” “Inaccessible. He told me he’d be in his office; I walked all the way there,…

This is a marvelous book teaching a core virtue: teachableness, an eagerness to learn from others. This is a perfect read at the beginning of a school year for Christian scholars/teachers who must first be learners if we hope to facilitate the learning of others. I loved this book. It used biblical theology to show…