Reflection

In this article we document correlations between practices once regarded as sinful, both personal and social, and medical evidence of increased morbidity and decreased longevity. We suggest that more attention needs to be given to such correlations, especially considering the escalation of costs associated with maintaining good public health, and further, that ancient and medieval…

Since I was a child, music has been an integral part of my development. In fact, I find it difficult to recall times in my life when music was not omnipresent—from singing in my preschool church choir to contributing my soprano voice to what is now the Houston Boychoir (that is, until being dismissed when…

The love of wisdom needs the wisdom of love. Let me say what this means and why it matters. I begin with a poem by Miriam Pederson titled “Hold Your Horses.” Lasso truthlike a run-away steerand you will find its veinsrunning cold. Approach it like a loverwith a ribbon for her hairand truth, in time,will…

R. Scott Smith is Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics at Biola University. In 2013, Amos Yong surveyed the status of evangelical higher education, in part with a focus on integration.Amos Yong, “Whence and Whither in Evangelical Higher Education? Dispatches from a Shifting Frontier—A Review Essay” Christian Scholar’s Review 42.2 (2013): 179–192 . As he…

Daniel F. Ippolito is a Professor of Biology at Anderson University. Modern science rests on three foundational assumptions which are ultimately unprovable, by which I mean that they cannot be demonstrated irrefutably in the sense that a mathematical proof can be demonstrated irrefutably. Two of these assumptions (uniformitarianism and the Principle of Parsimony) will be…

This essay chronicles how a freshly minted college professor navigated the many potential passageways one encounters when teaching biology at a Christian liberal arts college. It describes a journey of initial idea evasion that eventually led to academic engagement with students who collectively sought more than just textbook knowledge. In the process, the author discovered…

Bruno Dyck is a Professor of Business at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. I am thankful to the authors of “Reimagining Business Education as Formation” for their thoughtful and thought-provoking paper, and grateful for this opportunity to comment on it and draw out implications based on the “lenses” through which I read…

Despite historical and recent scholarship that demonstrates the need to appeal to the affective dimension of students to enable appropriate behavior, Christian business education is dominated by cognitively focused “worldview integration.” In this essay Kenman Wong, Bruce Baker, and Randal Franz argue for reimagining business education as a formational enterprise in order to facilitate a…

Jason Stansbury is an Associate Professor of Business and the James and Judith Chambery Chair for the Study of Business Ethics at Calvin College. Wong, Baker, and Franz have argued convincingly for a Christian pedagogy of business that seeks to form students’ hearts as well as to inform their minds. “Shap the social imaginaries of…

Kenman Wong, Bruce Baker, and Randal Franz serve on the business faculty at Seattle Pacific University. We are honored and gratified by the comments our esteemed colleagues have made regarding our article. We deeply value their affirmations of the notion of education as formation, as well as their comments which bring important insights to the…

Mitchell J. Neubert is a Professor of Management and the Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. I applaud Wong, Baker, and Franz for drawing attention to the need for business professors in Christian colleges and universities to examine their approach to educating students. It also is…

Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Let me begin my response to this fine essay autobiographically. When I was a student at Calvin College in the early 1950s I was inducted into the Americanized version of the Dutch Reformed understanding of Christian higher education. The talk was…

Todd V. Cioffi is an Assistant Professor of Congregational and Ministry Studies at Calvin College and Peter J. Snyder is an Associate Professor of Business at Calvin College. Wong, Baker, and Franz’s essay on business education as formation is most welcomed. We have been teaching a first-year interim course for the past three years very…

A previous article, “Christian Communities and ‘Recovered Memories’ of Abuse” (CSR 41.4 : 381-400) by Robert J. Priest and Esther E. Cordill, examines the problem of individuals wrongfully found to have committed abuse against minors in a mission context. However, James Evinger and Rich Darr argue the article erroneously describes the methodology of one denomination’s…

For sixteen years Don W. King served as the Editor of the Christian Scholar’s Review, completing his service on May 1, 2015. In the last of three short reflections he relates a dream he had just before stepping down as editor. Mr. King is Professor of English at Montreat College. Last night I had a…

For sixteen years Don W. King has served as Editor of the Christian Scholar’s Review. In the second of three short reflections as he completes his service to CSR effective May 1, 2015, he reflects upon how a teacher and poet influenced his life as a scholar. Mr. King is Professor of English at Montreat…

For sixteen years Don W. King has served as the Editor of the Christian Scholar’s Review. In the first of three short reflections as he completes his service to CSR effective May 1, 2015, he muses on an obvious but nonetheless important truth—all of us owe much to those who have gone before us. Mr.…

Robert Priest is Professor of Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Esther Cordill practices clinical psychology. James Evinger and Richard Darr misunderstand and misconstrue two brief references in our article. They wrongly imply that these references were central. They fail to address the topic that was central. They instead launch a discussion of…

As a biblical studies professor at a Reformed, liberal arts college, David Crump has observed the tendency for Reformed folk to allow debates over confessional interpretations to stand in place of a robust engagement with Scripture. Crump’s own denomination requires all church leaders, including college faculty, to sign a pledge called the “Covenant for Officebearers,”…

Over the course of history, darkness and creatures associated with the dark have long beenvilified. Yet according to Adam Barkman, this vilification has often resulted in both aesthetic and ethical injustice. At the root of these injustices is humanity’s constant failure both to keep the literal and the metaphorical separate and to remember that all…