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The Stories at Work in the Classroom: Towards an Affective Worldview Approach to Faith-Learning Integration for Biblical Studies

Faith-learning integration is a well-worn pedagogical topic, especially at many Christian institutions, but the discussion is surprisingly underdeveloped in the field of biblical studies. Yet even where the conversation is taking place with the most energy, it is complicated by uncertain terminology and is often mired in an over-emphasis on the cerebral. Despite these circumstances,…
March 23, 2026
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A Head with No Body, a Mind with No Soul: Artificial Intelligence and C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength

Christians who want to think critically about artificial intelligence (AI) may benefit significantly from C. S. Lewis’s writings. Lewis is well known for his various novels and works on Christian thought. His novel That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups provides helpful guidance for technology, grounded as it is with biblical-theological assumptions. About the “Space”…
March 23, 2026
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Cultural Logics in Agriculture: A Critical Christian Perspective

Imagine a precocious, driven, and empathetic undergraduate student. She has discovered a passion and a talent for biochemistry, and wants to apply to graduate school to pursue agronomy, with the goal of returning to her rural community home after graduation. She loves science and nature; she is also a committed Christian. She has a vague…
March 23, 2026
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What Good is Perspective-Taking if No One Changes Their Perspective?

The speakers stood in the free speech quad and were accompanied by towering ten-­foot signs. The signs condemned homosexuality with Bible passages—painted in crimson red—as support. At a progressive public university, they immediately attracted a crowd looking for a verbal fight. The confrontation happened right outside the communication building where I was starting my master’s…
December 8, 2025
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Election to Community unto Maximizing Shalom as the Heart of Vocation: Wolfhart Pannenberg and Stanley J. Grenz in Dialogue with John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

The word vocation today often refers to one’s work or employment in the world. This secularized, individualistic connotation is discernible from definitions like “a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation” or the use of the word calling to describe such a “feeling.”Lexico, s.v. “vocation,” accessed 29 November 2020, https://www.lexico.com/definition/vocation. Nevertheless, in…
August 18, 2025
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Why Seek Profits?: A Missional Perspective on Business

For-profit businesses dominate the modern economy. But is there any good reason for the Christian to willingly participate in them? Upon first glance, this seems like a silly question. Despite the way it is often practiced, for-profit business enterprises can be a powerful force for good and can have a variety of positive consequences, both…
August 18, 2025
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Making Sense of Christian Learning

Introduction Christian higher education finds itself at a significant crossroads. Cultural upheaval, significant shifts in college enrollment, concerns around the enduring value of a college degree, the impact of artificial intelligence, and many other factors swirl about amidst ongoing financial pressures.Michael Smith, “The Public is Giving Up on Higher Ed,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October…
May 19, 2025
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Theologically Navigating Cinematic Multiverses with C. S. Lewis

The term “multiverse” has gained popularity in the last decade as a storytelling trope exploring alternate timelines based on different choices characters do, or could, make. Yet, while the term may have found popularity in recent years, particularly due to the popularity of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this existential thought process is…
March 11, 2025
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Faithful Writing Pedagogy in the Age of Generative AI: A Sabbath-­Grounded Approach

Before the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, discussions of AI in higher education were still relatively easy to avoid. While many people had begun to anticipate the impact of emerging AI technologies—some extolling the efficiencies promised by progressively sophisticated algorithms and others speculating apocalyptically about a world where these technologies gradually achieve…
March 11, 2025
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Telling New Stories

Last year a group of provosts convened to engage in conversations about Emerson’s essay, “The American Scholar.” Over the period of a year, we looked for insights into the role of the Christian scholar by reflecting on Emerson’s description of the ideal American scholar. He admonished the American scholar to break free from the European…
November 6, 2024
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The Christian Scholar as a Poet

A Tale of Two Emersons In the little New England town where I grew up, two roads were named after Ralph Waldo Emerson—different roads sharing one name. Our split-­level home sat on a half-­acre plot by a meadow; while I lived on this quiet Emerson Road, there was another Emerson Road less than a mile…
November 6, 2024
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Christian Higher Education: Partnering the Chapel and Laboratory

In 2011 Pepperdine University hosted a conference in which Francis S. Collins offered the keynote address. His credentials are extraordinary: Collins is an accomplished research scientist, physician, director of the Human Genome Project, and subsequently director of the National Institutes of Health for three consecutive United States presidents. A devout Christian believer, he authored The…
November 6, 2024
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The Wholehearted, Daring, Balancing Act of Christian Scholarship

The American Scholar On August 31, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson stepped into the pulpit of First Parish Meetinghouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to deliver what would become one of the defining lectures of his life and legacy, “The American Scholar.” Harvard University, having celebrated its bicentennial anniversary not even a year before, was a bastion of…
November 6, 2024