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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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Forging a Christian College Core Curriculum

Having worked at three different Christian colleges in my career, I have observed that discussions surrounding the core curriculum at Christian colleges can be cantankerous. Colleagues from other Christian universities have confirmed with me that core curriculum debates can set colleagues at odds. In fact, one professor I spoke with (at an institution that shall…
April 9, 2021
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Christian Politics for a Post-Christian Society

Last year I wrote about the possibility that Christians face religious discrimination in the United States. We are moving into a post-Christian society and this is reflected in increased expressions of anti-Christian bigotry. My research has confirmed that those with this bigotry are more likely to be white, male, wealthy, and well-educated. So, it is very well connected and…
April 8, 2021
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Attention and Love

In the midst of the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic, while trying to figure out how to give a genuine laboratory experience to students scattered around the world, I accidently developed a project that taught my students how to love. I was teaching a standard first semester biology course for science majors and pre-med…
April 7, 2021
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The Identity We Don’t Celebrate: Being an Excellent Enemy

And there is a second commandment, which seems to me even more incomprehensible and arouses even stronger opposition in me. It is: “Love thine enemies.”                                                                                     Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Trans. and Ed. James Strachey (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1961), 57. “…while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the…
April 6, 2021
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Communities of Practice: Scientists in Congregations

“What do congregations have to teach scientists?” This was the question that James K. A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, asked at a Scientists in Congregations, Scotland, conference in St Andrews some time ago. The theme of the conference was ‘Christ and Creation’, and the aim was to draw the conversation on science…
April 5, 2021
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Forsaken: On Good Friday

On this day, we remember the unjust murder of an innocent man. And he wasn’t innocent in just a legal way, or even a “religious commandment” sort of way. He was innocent in a child way, an infant way.  Though a grown man, with a man’s strength and a great scholar’s mind (of course he…
April 2, 2021
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Guest Post: Nomadland’s Cardiac Geography

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland debuted last month in select theaters and on Hulu. On Sunday it won Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes, and Zhao took home the prize for Best Director. The film stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a widow who moves from job to job, lives out of her white utility van,…
March 31, 2021
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Delighted to be a Dilettante

About a decade ago, a first-generation freshman came into my office for her first academic advising meeting. As we talked through her set of classes, I asked her in what she thought she would like to major. With downcast eyes and quiet voice, she told me that she had no idea. In that instant, I…
March 30, 2021
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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our students’ vocations and how that might affect how we teach. I pointed to a common Protestant theology of vocation. Christians have a primary vocation to love God in Christ and to love their neighbor. This is worked out through an…
March 29, 2021