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A Diamond, a Magnifying Glass, and a Guard: Three Analogies for Truth in an AI World

As the new academic year began, it seemed the whole nation turned its attention to artificial intelligence. News feeds such as “White House Announces New AI Education Initiative,” Esther Wickham. “White House Announces New AI Education Initiative,” AOL The Center Square, September 8, 2025, https://www.aol.com/articles/white-house-announces-ai-education-000000126.html. “Confusing School AI Policies Leave Families Guessing,”Megan Morrone. “Confusing School…
December 16, 2025
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Professing in an Age of Therapeutic Rage: A Lamentation

Recently, Tamar Shirinian, a University of Tennessee assistant professor of cultural anthropology, filed a lawsuit against the UT administration, contesting termination over social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.Keenan Thomas, “Tamar Shirinian Sues University of Tennessee for Suspending Her after Charlie Kirk Comment,” Knoxville News Sentinel, October 30, 2025, https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2025/10/30/professor-sues-university-of-tennessee-over-charlie-kirk-comment-suspension/86950647007/ She is not…
December 12, 2025
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A Review of Untangling Critical Race Theory

Over the past five years, Christians have had much to say about Critical Race Theory (CRT). Unfortunately, the most widely heard voices have tended to favor demonizing over perspective-­taking. Thankfully, there is now an accessible book on CRT that corrects this error. Author Ed Uszynski not only has the academic credentials to write on this…
December 11, 2025
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Preface to the Reviews

Though this is a special theme issue of Christian Scholar’s Review, partly under the editorship of a guest editor, the reviews section is not part of the special issue. This does not mean, of course, that the reviews are not special—indeed, we are blessed with a multitude of insightful contributions. It simply means that they…
December 10, 2025

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The Tragic Academic Neglect of Mothers’ Impact: And a Christian Remembrance and Call for Change

We cannot count on academics to study the most important realities in our lives (versus the latest academic fad). Motherhood is one of those important realities. Noble Laureate and University of Chicago economist James J. Heckman recently made this astounding observation, “hat we don’t have—and to me, it’s an amazing deficiency—we don’t any good economic…
May 7, 2021
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Prostitution and the Limits of Economic Reasoning

In my capacity as host of the podcast Faithful Economy, I recently had the opportunity to interview Scott Cunningham, an economist at Baylor, about his work related to markets for prostitution. Albeit a bit reluctantly, Scott made a powerful case for at least partial legalization of prostitution. You can listen to our conversation here. I…
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May 6, 2021
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The Emergence of Remix Culture

From Carl Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self to Kristen DuMez’s Jesus and John Wayne, from Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood to Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry’s Taking America Back for God and Sarah Posner’s Unholy, a spate of illuminating (if controversial and contested) cultural histories have been published…
May 3, 2021
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Choosing How to Explain The Choice A Virus Makes

In the preface of his book, A Genetic Switch, famed molecular biologist Mark Ptashne writes regarding his beloved virus, named lambda, “The lambda life cycle is a paradigm for this problem: the virus chooses one or another mode of growth depending upon extracellular signals, and we understand in considerable detail the molecular interactions that mediate…
April 30, 2021
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Obscurity: On Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (usually just called Caravaggio) was always hiding. He left his family home at age 13, an orphan hiding from sorrow. At 21 he wounded a police officer and fled his hometown of Milan, hiding from the law. In his twenties and early thirties he spent most of his time skulking in…
April 29, 2021
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Ordering Our Evils: The Chinese Genocide of the Uyghurs

Editor’s Note; In this series on academics and the Fall, I have focused on the consequences of the Fall for Christian scholars in general, Christian scholars’ view of time and liberal arts education, but in this final post, I want to talk about the consequences of the Fall for our academic agendas regarding evil.  Christian…
April 28, 2021
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There Is No Wisdom in Looking It Up

We have all heard this from our students: “Why do I have to know when I can just look it up?” Today’s undergraduate students have come of age seeing their phones as an extension of themselves; their sense of self too often shaped in part by their browsing history and the responses to their own…
April 27, 2021
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Why Anti-Racism is so Popular

Imagine that you are the CEO of a large business or president of a university. We are at a time where racial animosity and division has moved to the forefront of our nation. As the leader of your organization you may be concerned with dealing with the effects of our country’s atrocious legacy of racism.…
April 26, 2021