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Chad Carlson is Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Director of General Education at Hope College. He serves on the executive board of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, he co-directed the Second Global Congress on Sport and Christianity, and he is co-founder and co-director of SPORT. FAITH. LIFE. Carlson wrote Making March Madness…

Regardless of how one defines it, American evangelicalism is at a crossroads. The last quarter of the twentieth century was replete with signs of prosperity. Many churches, parachurch organizations, universities, and seminaries grew at unprecedented rates. Some analysts argued that the individuals populating those institutions were contributing to an intellectual renaissance. For example, in the…

Peter J. Snyder is Associate Professor of Business at Calvin College. Much has been written in the past few years about the formative implications of higher education. Students are not cognitive receptacles in which to pour content, but are shaped by both the content and the practices of curricular and co-curricular activities. In his influential…

Richard Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences at Westmont College, Michael Van Dyke is Professor of English at Cornerstone University, Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University, and Mark Yuly is Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Houghton…

Jerry Logan is the Academic Programs Coordinator at Gordon College. Janel Curry is the Provost at Gordon College. This special edition of the Christian Scholar’s Review aims to broaden our understanding of the global face—the contexts, opportunities, and challenges—of Christian higher education. This face is changing almost constantly. Students are studying abroad in historic numbers,…

It seems fitting that this special CSR issue on intersections between “faith and film” should coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Walker Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer. Ever since Percy, a strange brew of Southerner, Catholic, existentialist, self-trained semiotician, and non-practicing MD, won the National Book Award for his 1961 novel about a 30-year-old stockbroker’s…

Many of our students are required to read Plato’s Gorgias at some point in their college careers. Occasionally, and after some reflection and discussion of the text, those students come to appreciate just how high the stakes are for those confronted with the Gorgias’s central question: how should one live? Socrates, Plato’s protagonist, champions the…

Sometime in 2008, most demographers would agree, we crossed a historic threshold, one that is meaningful to Christian scholarship. Until then, and since the earliest days of civilization, the bulk of the world’s population lived in rural areas. Even at the turn of the 20th century, only 10% of the world’s population lived in cities.…

Max Weber lamented over a century ago that the context in which industrial age economic organizations operate emphasizes a technical and cultural rationalization focusing on the material at the expense of the super-material. The pursuit of material rewards in the modern economy has left little room for a spiritual or theological approach to understanding work…