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Race. Gender. Sexuality. Politics. Theology. Parenting. Vaccines. Mask wearing.All potential conversational landmines. What happens when…

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;    to search out a matter is…

Editor’s Note: In this column and the two following I’m going to discuss how Christian…

Readers of CSR and these blogs are likely familiar with the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA)…

In the first part of this post, I discussed the pressures academics face with a…

“Spring break” is a misnomer for faculty and staff at colleges on the quarter system…

This is the third in a series of reflections on student vocation. I began in…

Happy are those Who do not follow the advice of the wicked, Or take the…

A Christian liberal arts education should undermine certitude: something I learned from Dorothy L. Sayers,…

Having worked at three different Christian colleges in my career, I have observed that discussions…

Last year I wrote about the possibility that Christians face religious discrimination in the United States. We…

In the midst of the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic, while trying to figure…

And there is a second commandment, which seems to me even more incomprehensible and arouses…

“What do congregations have to teach scientists?” This was the question that James K. A.…

On this day, we remember the unjust murder of an innocent man. And he wasn’t…

The legendary fall of Troy was precipitated by the horrific death of the priest Laocoön,…

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland debuted last month in select theaters and on Hulu. On Sunday it…

About a decade ago, a first-generation freshman came into my office for her first academic…

In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our…

We know ourselves by what is reflected back at us. We see ourselves in the…