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Susan VanZanten is the Assistant Vice President for Mission and Spiritual Life and Consulting Dean…

Susan M. Felch is Emerita Professor of English at Calvin University and the former director…

Philip Ryken is the President of Wheaton College, where he has served since 2010. The…

Julia D. Hejduk is the Reverend Jacob Beverly Stiteler Professor of Classics and Associate Dean…

The fullness of human community that Dante depicts in the final third of his Divine…

Can game playing possibly be the ideal of existence? Philosopher Bernard Suits argues that it…

Understanding the role that exercise ought to play in a Christian’s vocation requires a clear…

Comparatively studying the Hindu theologies of lila and the Christian theologies of play can provide…

Work and play are often seen as the antithesis of each other, and twentieth-century scholars…

Shame and guilt are important concepts within Christian theology. In much of the literature, however,…

This article proposes that Transformative Learning Theory (TLT), particularly in light of recent advances in…

Some Christian students in the sciences may encounter apparent tensions at the interface of science…

Creative individuals in every era have produced works that inspire and provoke their fellow citizens,…

This introduction gives an overview of mimetic theory’s three core ideas as first formulated in the…

The Bible, in René Girard’s reading, reveals the violent foundations of social order and critiques…

Though tribalism and conflict have long been a focus of social psychological research, psychology as…

This collaboration between a social work researcher with expertise in systems of care for those…

Mimetic theory has received very little attention from economists. This essay by an ap-plied microeconomist…

In a global digital culture of influencers, followers, and attention-deficit disorders, mimetic theory helps show…

Many Christian films released in the last two decades often pitch themselves as a means…