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Last spring, I exchanged emails with a former student I’ll call Anna. It had been a year since Anna had taken my composition course, and I had just sent her the “Future You” letter she had written to herself as an end-of-the-course assignment. Reading back over her letter had given Anna perspective on herself and…

I turned eighty-four early in 2026. Eight-four years old. It is hard to believe. Indeed, I am still in denial about this. We moved to a seniors’ complex in Waterloo, Ontario, one year ago, and this was the most difficult move of my life. I really felt that I didn’t belong here with all these…

Editor's Note: The following is a book excerpt from Faithful Faculty: Vocational Flourishing in Christian Higher Education (B&H Publishing) that was released today. Serving as a faculty member at a mission-driven college or university is a calling from the Lord, but starting this journey can be daunting. Whether you are arriving at this new place…

Editor's Note: This post is written in honor of today's date on the Western Church calendar: the Feast of the Ascension Every April, I teach students about taxes. The class isn’t Accounting, but Physical Chemistry. These aren’t monetary taxes mandated by written laws, but energetic taxes mandated by the physical laws of chemistry and thermodynamics.…

It is an indication of how far the field has come that Oxford University Press recently published not one but two excellent books on the historical relationship between religion and sports in the United States, each work taking a different approach to the subject. Paul Putz’s The Spirit of the Game explains how deepening connections…

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, a cruise where we docked at a port in Honduras made me question whether I was the rich young ruler. The day after the Honduras docking, my wife and I were invited to take part in a creative experience designed to help us understand today’s persecuted church. The organizers…

“Never let them see you sweat!” This phrase was introduced into our cultural vocabulary in 1984. Gillette Company launched a series of antiperspirant commercials where famous athletes, performers, and celebrities followed a similar script, as evidenced by comedian Elaine Boosler:“There are three nevers in comedy. Never follow a better comedian. Never give a heckler the…

I (Paul Kim) love mentoring undergraduate research. Something about teaching undergraduate students to refine the academic and professional skills normally reserved for their more advanced counterparts, combined with the eagerness and appropriate level of fear that younger students might bring into the first-time experience of joining a research lab, makes the research mentoring experience uniquely…