Jessica Martin, known to everyone as Jess, was a graduate student at Baylor and our student worker for the Christian Scholar’s Review website. Over the past several years, Jess and I exchanged hundreds of emails as she transferred the articles from the print issue onto the site. She was also often the final editor of…

Scrolling Ourselves to Death is a project of the Gospel Coalition, harnessing the arguments of Neil Postman’s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, to take on post-millennial media. This compilation of essays applies Postman’s logic and insights about the social and spiritual impact of television to the 2025 world of social media and other digital…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into nearly every sphere of human life. This is certainly true of higher education, for good and ill, and Christian colleges and universities are no exception. My own alma mater, Olivet Nazarene University, in addition to grappling with some of the most pressing AI-related ethical considerations around student…

Over the past two weeks, my colleagues Margaret Diddams and Perry Glanzer have articulated the mission of Christian Scholar’s Review by considering the “why” and “what” of the journal. In this blog post, I will explore the “how” question—how CSR approaches its mission. (As you might expect, the “how” overlaps considerably with the “what” and…

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details. –Albert Einstein1 The turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century was a heady time for advances in atomic…

The conversation began, as it often does, with conviction. In my undergraduate criminal justice classroom, we were discussing the death penalty. One student spoke with certainty about justice as retribution—grounded, she explained, in her understanding of Scripture. Across the room, another student responded just as firmly, articulating a vision of justice rooted in restoration, also…