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Is a student demonstrating a skill in the lab enough to consider that student competent?…

In the first essay in this series, we presented the notion that within interdisciplinary work…

For all their economic vulnerabilities, small Christian colleges, and universities might be the ideal environment…

As recounted in the previous post, Oppenheimer fixated on a rather limited view of the…

Based on the review of Oppenheimer biographies we offered in the last two posts, a…

The vocational fragmentation we noted in yesterday’s post summarizing some prominent Oppenheimer biographies likely had…

However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is…

On Friday, the largest-scale exploration of the American academic vocation will hit theaters. With a…

For those whose lives are marked by the rhythms of the academic calendar, time unfolds…

This is the last in a series of posts that apply four frames of the…

This May I taught a summer course called “Technology and Freedom.” We read many of…

In 1994 and 1995, I traveled to seventeen different cities in Russia and Ukraine to…

In my first post in this series, I explained how I convened a group of…

When visiting Australia this past year, I happened to catch a taxi ride with an…

“A man may have to die for his country, but no man must, in an…

This post is the third of a five-part series. In the first post I described…

C. S. Lewis wrestled with liberalism in the Anglican Church in his day in the…

Throughout my career in higher education, teaching ethics had a strong academic feel. It is…

In a recent blog post, I addressed the sloppy, alarmist reporting about the state of…

Almost forty years ago Alvin Plantinga’s memorable “Advice to Christian Philosophers” set out a three-fold…